Lavrov: Armenia did not decline Kazan document on Karabakh settlement

 Armenia did not reject the Kazakh document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov said at a joint 
press conference with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian in Yerevan on April 22.  The Russian minister made such statement in 
response to the question as to whether Armenia and Azerbaijan declined the Karabakh document on Karabakh settlement. 

"As an immediate participant in those talks I can state that Armenia did not decline it," Lavrov said.

Edward Nalbandian, in turn, said it was Azerbaijan that declined the document, not Armenia.

"Azerbaijan declined the document not only in Kazan. Earlier it did the same in Sochi, Moscow, Astrakhan, Saint Petersburg. We can look 
even ten years back to the Paris talks," Nalbandian said.  

The Kazan document was proposed at the Summit in Kazan in 2011. The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan 
met at the behest of Dmitry Medvedev, the then president of Russia. The leaders discussed the draft road map of long-tern settlement of 
the Karabakh conflict. The Kazan document consisted of 14 provisions. It implied among others return of the territories surrounding 
Karabakh (Jebrail, Zangelan, Kubatli, Kelbajar, part of Fizuli and Aghdam regions, and 13 villages in Lachin region) to Azerbaijan with 
the corridor linking Karabakh to Armenia in the area of Lachin. It was planned that the final status of Karabakh that is still a 
stumbling block would be determined through a referendum several years later, subject to settlement of the refugee problem. At the 
last moment, Aliyev and Sargsyan failed to make a concession.