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NKR MFA: `Inter-community' format is unacceptable
armradio.am
10.12.2011 15:56
`The Azerbaijani authorities implant actively the notion of
`inter-community' aimed at distorting the essence of the Karabakh
issue and transforming the actual trilateral format of the conflict
into a bilateral one, which is favorable for official Baku,' the NKR
Minsistry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
`The Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict is the consequence of official
Baku's inability to display civilized approaches to the solution of
the issue, which occurred as a result of the natural process of
disintegration during the USSR collapse. The Nagorno Karabakh
Republic, which had been established in full accordance with the then
legislation and all the international norms, became an object of
Azerbaijan's full-scale aggression aimed at physical extermination of
the NKR citizens. Having lost the war, which it had unleashed, Baku,
unfortunately, became more sophisticated in its intrigues and
provocations in the political sphere.
The attempts to introduce the Karabakh conflict as `inter-community'
are a propaganda trick of official Baku, trying to distract the
international community from the real essence of the issue, which
testifies again to Azerbaijani authorities' lacking a political will
and desire for a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
The `inter-community' format pursues far-reaching goals, in
particular, unilateral return of Azerbaijani refugees to Nagorno
Karabakh without resolving the issue of the 500.000 Armenians deported
from Azerbaijan; turning the issue of former `colony' and former
`metropolis' into inter-ethnic problems of the region's inhabitants,
while it is a consequence of the general discrimination policy of the
Azerbaijani authorities towards the Karabakh Armenians; ignoring the
factor of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic's being an entity, and
introducing the established Karabakh state as a region in Azerbaijan's
structure with equal rights of two communities. On Baku's
consideration, all the abovementioned should ultimately become the
basis for the issue's solution in the radically nonviable format of
`self-determination of Nagorno Karabakh within Azerbaijan.'
The Karabakh party considers the `inter-community' approach not only
non-perspective, but also extremely dangerous, as it leads the
peacemaking process to a deadlock and discredits the very idea of
peacemaking, causing additional tension and non-confidence between the
societies of the conflicting parties.
The attempt of artificial granting of this status to the Azerbaijani
minority has no legal basis; it contradicts, in particular, the OSCE
Budapest Summit resolution (1994) on the recognition of Nagorno
Karabakh as an independent party to the conflict, without noting the
`communities.' The right of the Nagorno Karabakh population to
self-determination didn't depend on the existence of consensus between
the Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The former citizens of Nagorno
Karabakh of Azerbaijani origin, to whom the Karabakh authorities gave
the chance of participating in the voting and resolving the future
fate of the region, preferred leaving Karabakh and becoming citizens
of the newly proclaimed Azerbaijani Republic.
A constructive dialogue between the NKR citizens and former
Azerbaijani citizens of Nagorno Karabakh is possible only after the
legal recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Only direct
negotiations between the political leadership of Nagorno Karabakh and
Azerbaijan can give specific results on the comprehensive settlement
of the issue and establishment of long-term peace in the region,' the
statement reads.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
armradio.am
10.12.2011 15:56
`The Azerbaijani authorities implant actively the notion of
`inter-community' aimed at distorting the essence of the Karabakh
issue and transforming the actual trilateral format of the conflict
into a bilateral one, which is favorable for official Baku,' the NKR
Minsistry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
`The Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict is the consequence of official
Baku's inability to display civilized approaches to the solution of
the issue, which occurred as a result of the natural process of
disintegration during the USSR collapse. The Nagorno Karabakh
Republic, which had been established in full accordance with the then
legislation and all the international norms, became an object of
Azerbaijan's full-scale aggression aimed at physical extermination of
the NKR citizens. Having lost the war, which it had unleashed, Baku,
unfortunately, became more sophisticated in its intrigues and
provocations in the political sphere.
The attempts to introduce the Karabakh conflict as `inter-community'
are a propaganda trick of official Baku, trying to distract the
international community from the real essence of the issue, which
testifies again to Azerbaijani authorities' lacking a political will
and desire for a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
The `inter-community' format pursues far-reaching goals, in
particular, unilateral return of Azerbaijani refugees to Nagorno
Karabakh without resolving the issue of the 500.000 Armenians deported
from Azerbaijan; turning the issue of former `colony' and former
`metropolis' into inter-ethnic problems of the region's inhabitants,
while it is a consequence of the general discrimination policy of the
Azerbaijani authorities towards the Karabakh Armenians; ignoring the
factor of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic's being an entity, and
introducing the established Karabakh state as a region in Azerbaijan's
structure with equal rights of two communities. On Baku's
consideration, all the abovementioned should ultimately become the
basis for the issue's solution in the radically nonviable format of
`self-determination of Nagorno Karabakh within Azerbaijan.'
The Karabakh party considers the `inter-community' approach not only
non-perspective, but also extremely dangerous, as it leads the
peacemaking process to a deadlock and discredits the very idea of
peacemaking, causing additional tension and non-confidence between the
societies of the conflicting parties.
The attempt of artificial granting of this status to the Azerbaijani
minority has no legal basis; it contradicts, in particular, the OSCE
Budapest Summit resolution (1994) on the recognition of Nagorno
Karabakh as an independent party to the conflict, without noting the
`communities.' The right of the Nagorno Karabakh population to
self-determination didn't depend on the existence of consensus between
the Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The former citizens of Nagorno
Karabakh of Azerbaijani origin, to whom the Karabakh authorities gave
the chance of participating in the voting and resolving the future
fate of the region, preferred leaving Karabakh and becoming citizens
of the newly proclaimed Azerbaijani Republic.
A constructive dialogue between the NKR citizens and former
Azerbaijani citizens of Nagorno Karabakh is possible only after the
legal recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Only direct
negotiations between the political leadership of Nagorno Karabakh and
Azerbaijan can give specific results on the comprehensive settlement
of the issue and establishment of long-term peace in the region,' the
statement reads.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress