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YEREVAN: BAKU'S POSITION ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH UNCONSTRUCTIVE
Interfax
Dec 6 2010
Russia
Yerevan views as unconstructive Baku's position on the Nagorno-Karabakh
issue it assumed at the recent OSCE summit in Astana.
"Azerbaijan had also assumed unconstructive position at the OSCE
meetings in Helsinki in December 2008, in Athens in December 2009,
in Almaty in July 2010 and perhaps even more obviously in Astana,"
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in an interview with
the Armenian state news agency Armenpress on Friday.
"By obstructing the settlement of the conflict and regularly rejecting
the mediators' proposals, including the options offered in June,
October, and November this year, Azerbaijan is in fact trying to use
the negotiations as a screen for preparing new reckless undertakings,"
he said.
"High-ranking Azeri officials tried to distort the essence and the
content of the five-sided statement on Nagorno-Karabakh immediately
following the OSCE summit in Astana," he said.
"It has already become a tradition for Azeri propaganda to throw
straws to its public opinion, which, however, cannot be clutched,"
Nalbandian said.
The leaders of almost all countries attending the OSCE summit
emphasized that it was absolutely unacceptable to use force or a
threat of force, he said.
Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov had said earlier that,
unlike expectations, no progress was made on Nagorno-Karabakh at the
OSCE summit in Astana.
From: A. Papazian
Interfax
Dec 6 2010
Russia
Yerevan views as unconstructive Baku's position on the Nagorno-Karabakh
issue it assumed at the recent OSCE summit in Astana.
"Azerbaijan had also assumed unconstructive position at the OSCE
meetings in Helsinki in December 2008, in Athens in December 2009,
in Almaty in July 2010 and perhaps even more obviously in Astana,"
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in an interview with
the Armenian state news agency Armenpress on Friday.
"By obstructing the settlement of the conflict and regularly rejecting
the mediators' proposals, including the options offered in June,
October, and November this year, Azerbaijan is in fact trying to use
the negotiations as a screen for preparing new reckless undertakings,"
he said.
"High-ranking Azeri officials tried to distort the essence and the
content of the five-sided statement on Nagorno-Karabakh immediately
following the OSCE summit in Astana," he said.
"It has already become a tradition for Azeri propaganda to throw
straws to its public opinion, which, however, cannot be clutched,"
Nalbandian said.
The leaders of almost all countries attending the OSCE summit
emphasized that it was absolutely unacceptable to use force or a
threat of force, he said.
Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov had said earlier that,
unlike expectations, no progress was made on Nagorno-Karabakh at the
OSCE summit in Astana.
From: A. Papazian