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    ARMENIA URGES TO CREATE NEW SAFETY ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPE: FM

    Trend
    Dec 5 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Finland, Helsinki, 5 Dec / Trend News, corr. I.Gusatinskaya/
    Armenia considers it necessary to create new safety architecture
    in Europe. Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan stressed a
    need in a new architecture of safety in Europe and supported the
    French President's idea on launch of negotiations on the issue while
    delivering a speech at the annual meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers
    in Helsinki.

    Armenian foreign minister said that it would be symbolic to lay
    efficient solutions to the settlement of conflicts in Helsinki. Armenia
    is interested in a constructive cooperation with all international
    organizations on the issue of settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict.

    Armenia has occupied 20% of Azerbaijan's territory, Nagorno-Karabakh
    and seven surrounding regions. The occupation began in 1988. Azerbaijan
    lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December
    1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and
    Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan
    and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active
    hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia,
    France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful, but fruitless
    negotiations.

    Nalbandyan said that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    took a new impulse in Moscow and intensified the process. On 2 Nov,
    the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russian met in Moscow. The
    Moscow declaration was signed in the result of the meeting.

    According to the Armenian Foreign Minister, Azerbaijan interprets
    wrong all points of the Moscow declaration. Azerbaijan considers
    that declaration on peaceful settlement does not rule out the use
    of force. At the same time, Nalbandyan expressed bewilderment due to
    the OSCE member-countries did not react adequately upon the massive
    arming of Azerbaijan. Touching upon the Armenian-Turkish ties,
    the minister said that the ties are needed to normalize in order to
    achieve stability in Europe.
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