YEREVAN (Armenpress)–Deputy leader of the leading Azerbaijani party ‘Yeni Azerbaijan’ Ilham Aliyev–the son of Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev–welcomed Russian Ambassador Nikolay Ryabov’s opinion–voiced earlier this week that the Nagorno Karabakh issue should be resolved by the so-called phase by phase option–rejected by Armenia and Karabakh in 1998.
The phase by phase option foresees that discussions on the status of Nagorno Karabakh should follow the signing of the political accord and return of refugees to their previous settlemen’s
However–the Russian envoy did not explain whether it was his own standpoint–or the official standpoint of his country.