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RECOGNITION OF NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC BY ARMENIA TO BE ASYMMETRIC RESPOND - MATTHEW BRYZA
Trend News Agency
March 25 2008
Azerbaijan
Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian
Affairs, stated that recognition of independence of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic by the Armenian Government will cause a serious damage to
the peace negotiations.
"I think that any step directed to forejudge the negotiations on
approaching positions of Armenia and Azerbaijan on basic principles
would not be fruitful. Our attitude was precisely to the resolution
submitted by Azerbaijan to the agenda of UN General Assembly. It was
a unilateral resolution, which reflected unfair and non-balanced
character of proposals put forward on the negotiation table. If
the Armenian Government will take unilateral step and recognize
independence of Nagorno Karabakh Republic, then it would cause a
serious damage to the peace process, Bryza said in the interview to
Armenian Reporter newspaper in the United States.
Bryza stated if Armenia would take such step it would be asymmetric
respond to Azerbaijan and step with destabilization potential,"
Mediamax reported. "There will not remain another way for peace
settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict if Armenia recognizes
independence of Nagorno Karabakh Republic," he noted.
Trend News Agency
March 25 2008
Azerbaijan
Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian
Affairs, stated that recognition of independence of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic by the Armenian Government will cause a serious damage to
the peace negotiations.
"I think that any step directed to forejudge the negotiations on
approaching positions of Armenia and Azerbaijan on basic principles
would not be fruitful. Our attitude was precisely to the resolution
submitted by Azerbaijan to the agenda of UN General Assembly. It was
a unilateral resolution, which reflected unfair and non-balanced
character of proposals put forward on the negotiation table. If
the Armenian Government will take unilateral step and recognize
independence of Nagorno Karabakh Republic, then it would cause a
serious damage to the peace process, Bryza said in the interview to
Armenian Reporter newspaper in the United States.
Bryza stated if Armenia would take such step it would be asymmetric
respond to Azerbaijan and step with destabilization potential,"
Mediamax reported. "There will not remain another way for peace
settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict if Armenia recognizes
independence of Nagorno Karabakh Republic," he noted.