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  • Oskanian: If UN adopts Azer. resolution Armenia will refuse bilatera

    IF THE UN ADOPTS AZERBAIJANI RESOLUTION ARMENIA WILL REFUSE BILATERAL
    NEGOTIATIONS ON KARABAKH

    ARKA News Agency
    Dec 6 2004

    YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. If the UN adopts the Azerbaijani
    resolution "on the situation on the controlled territories", Armenia
    will refuse bilateral negotiations on Karabakh, as Armenian Foreign
    Minister Vardan Oskanian said in his interview to local TV company
    Kentron. In his words, in this case Armenia will demand Nagorno
    Karbakh's participation in the negotiating process as a party of the
    negotiations, as after adoption of such a resolution the issue will
    go beyond the Minsk Group and partially will go to other
    international organization, in which Amenia may not have any separate
    negotiations. "We really will not continue bilateral negotiations. If
    Azerbaijan will agree to Arkadi Ghukasyan's participation in them,
    the process will continue, otherwise Azerbaijan will be responsible
    for the consequences", he stated adding that the Con-Chairs were
    warning Azerbaijan that inclusion of the issue in the UN agenda will
    break the negotiations. Also Armenia will seriously change its policy
    regarding the Karabakh problem. Particularly, in his words, the
    problem will be publicly announced as a conflict between Azerbaijan
    and Nagorno Karabakh in which Amenia plays a role of guarantor. Also,
    Armenia will refer the issue to 1992, it will accent the reason of
    the situation and true responsible of militarization of the conflict.
    "And finally we will put the issue on self-determination of Karabakh
    strongly", he stressed, adding that Azerbaijan understands all this.
    In Oskanian's opinion, the danger of the adoption of the resolution
    by the UN in the circumstance that this organization can consider
    this issue as a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan . At that in
    his words, the probability of adoption of this issue exists as the
    OSCE Minsk Group member states will refrain from voting and most of
    the countries will follow their examples. In this case as he
    mentioned, the procedure of the adoption of the decision in the UN
    will allow Azerbaijan to pass the resolution having support of 5-10
    states. At the same time, Oskanian added that he does not see a
    tragedy in it, as the issue discussed in UN concerns the issue of
    settlement of the controlled territories and does not solve the issue
    of the status of Nagorno Karabakh. T.M. –0--

    --Boundary_(ID_OhzEDWv1BQhd8cCKe+FVLQ)--
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