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ROMANIA: BLACK SEA FORUM DISCUSSES "FROZEN CONFLICTS" IN ARMENIA, MOLDOVA
Rompres news agency, Bucharest
5 Jun 06
Bucharest, 5 June: The Black Sea Forum for Partnership and Dialogue
organized in Bucharest was an opportunity for Armenian and Azeri
Presidents Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev to resume dialogue
regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
Romanian President Traian Basescu specified during the Forum
discussions that the heads of the two Caucasian states have taken
advantage of their presence at the event to resume negotiations on
the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
According to the Romanian chief of state, Presidents Aliyev and
Kocharian had a round of talks on Sunday 4 June and top-level
negotiations will continue with a new round scheduled for after the
end of the summit in Bucharest.
President Kocharian stated at the summit that the Caucasian states
are divided by ethnic conflicts and the Forum organized by Romania
"offers the favourable setting" for the solving of these conflicts.
"We are willing to continue the dialogue with Azerbaijan in order
to have the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh settled, and with Turkey,
with a view to establishing relations free of any preconditions,"
said the head of the Armenian state.
On the other hand, President Aliyev hailed the initiative of the
launch of the Black Sea Forum, because it offers the possibility for
a common approach of the "continuous threat of the frozen conflicts
in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Dniester Region,
that all have the same causes and the same effect, the infringement
of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Republic
of Moldova".
Aliyev underscored that a discussion regarding the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan is out of question, that the authorities in
Baku cannot tolerate or acknowledge illegal entities on the national
territory and called on the international community not to legitimate
these breakaway regimes.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili too underscored that the
Black Sea region includes areas with lasting oppressive regimes that
infringe on human rights every day by forbidding people to speak
their mother tongue and freely use their culture, tradition and
religion. Saakashvili called the separatist regimes in the region
that have survived here for more than a decade "the democracies of
the cannibals" - built on crimes and territory violation of sovereign
states in the early '90s - and asked the international community not to
accept the legalization thereof. The Georgian president underscored
that his country would continue negotiations with the Russian
Federation for the withdrawal of the troops from Georgia's national
territory, but insisted that the talks be carried on equal footing.
President of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, voiced
discontent that the statement adopted by the summit of the Forum in
Bucharest "mentions only in passing the failure to settle the frozen
conflicts" and that the subject is not approached "directly and
unambiguously". "The separatism of Dniester Region, which challenges
the Republic of Moldova, is induced and supported from outside. We can
no longer keep silent because we are convinced that only by publicly
and straightforwardly asserting this can we get closer to the quick
settlement of this conflict," said President Voronin.
The final statement adopted in Bucharest by the state representatives
of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, the Republic of
Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Turkey points out that the "unsettled
conflicts in certain states in the Black Sea region are a challenge
to regional security and stability".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Rompres news agency, Bucharest
5 Jun 06
Bucharest, 5 June: The Black Sea Forum for Partnership and Dialogue
organized in Bucharest was an opportunity for Armenian and Azeri
Presidents Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev to resume dialogue
regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
Romanian President Traian Basescu specified during the Forum
discussions that the heads of the two Caucasian states have taken
advantage of their presence at the event to resume negotiations on
the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
According to the Romanian chief of state, Presidents Aliyev and
Kocharian had a round of talks on Sunday 4 June and top-level
negotiations will continue with a new round scheduled for after the
end of the summit in Bucharest.
President Kocharian stated at the summit that the Caucasian states
are divided by ethnic conflicts and the Forum organized by Romania
"offers the favourable setting" for the solving of these conflicts.
"We are willing to continue the dialogue with Azerbaijan in order
to have the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh settled, and with Turkey,
with a view to establishing relations free of any preconditions,"
said the head of the Armenian state.
On the other hand, President Aliyev hailed the initiative of the
launch of the Black Sea Forum, because it offers the possibility for
a common approach of the "continuous threat of the frozen conflicts
in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Dniester Region,
that all have the same causes and the same effect, the infringement
of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Republic
of Moldova".
Aliyev underscored that a discussion regarding the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan is out of question, that the authorities in
Baku cannot tolerate or acknowledge illegal entities on the national
territory and called on the international community not to legitimate
these breakaway regimes.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili too underscored that the
Black Sea region includes areas with lasting oppressive regimes that
infringe on human rights every day by forbidding people to speak
their mother tongue and freely use their culture, tradition and
religion. Saakashvili called the separatist regimes in the region
that have survived here for more than a decade "the democracies of
the cannibals" - built on crimes and territory violation of sovereign
states in the early '90s - and asked the international community not to
accept the legalization thereof. The Georgian president underscored
that his country would continue negotiations with the Russian
Federation for the withdrawal of the troops from Georgia's national
territory, but insisted that the talks be carried on equal footing.
President of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, voiced
discontent that the statement adopted by the summit of the Forum in
Bucharest "mentions only in passing the failure to settle the frozen
conflicts" and that the subject is not approached "directly and
unambiguously". "The separatism of Dniester Region, which challenges
the Republic of Moldova, is induced and supported from outside. We can
no longer keep silent because we are convinced that only by publicly
and straightforwardly asserting this can we get closer to the quick
settlement of this conflict," said President Voronin.
The final statement adopted in Bucharest by the state representatives
of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, the Republic of
Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Turkey points out that the "unsettled
conflicts in certain states in the Black Sea region are a challenge
to regional security and stability".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress