YEREVAN (Combined Sources)--International mediators claimed on Thursday to have made further progress towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict but indicated that no Armenian-Azeri peace accords will be signed before Armenia's forthcoming presidential election, as the Azeri president threatened war again.

Azerbaijan says the United Nations Security Council is the only place to find a solution to the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Armenia.

The Foreign Ministers of the GUAM, an alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, intend to discuss in New York a draft resolution on lingering conflicts in their countries to aid it in the 62nd UN General Assembly.

Armenia’s permanent representative to the UN, Armen Martirosian, said those countries which are well aware of the South Caucasian region and the true cause behind the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict find that an incautious politicization of this conflict may jeopardize the entire peace process.

Election officials in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh say the former head of the region's security service has been elected president.

The presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic in Azerbaijan, can be considered valid now that 25% of those eligible to vote have done so, the region's central election commission said Thursday.

There are five candidates officially running for president of Nagorno-Karabakh. Most observers say only one has any real chance of winning.