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AZERIS MUST RETURN TO OCCUPIED LANDS - PRESIDENT ALIYEV
Interfax
July 12 2011
Russia
Nagorno-Karabakh cannot receive any legal status without Baku's
approval, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said at a government
meeting that focused on the first half-year results of Azerbaijan's
socio-economic development on Tuesday.
"Azeri citizens must return to all the lands currently occupied before
peace and cooperation can begin," he said.
"As regards the legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh, the 2009 principles
stated that this issue is a question of the future, which can be
resoled in event of an agreement between the parties. In other
words, without Azerbaijan's consent, there can be no legal status
for Nagorno-Karabakh," Aliyev said.
"And this is why I spoke about it repeatedly before and want to say
it once again that the secession of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan,
granting it independence or its annexation to Armenia has never been
and never will be a subject of negotiations. Neither the leadership
nor the people of Azerbaijan will accept it," Aliyev said.
Meanwhile, one of the factors that caused the current intensification
of global efforts in the Karabakh settlement process is the growing
might of Azerbaijan and its army, he said.
The latest statements by the leaders of the countries mediating the
conflict about the unacceptability of the status quo in the Karabakh
conflict are encouraging, he said.
At a meeting in Sochi in March 2011, thanks to the mediation of Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev, Azerbaijan accepted a renewed version of the
Madrid Principles presented by the mediators in 2009, whereas Armenia
has been using various pretexts to avoid a similar step, Aliyev said.
Interfax
July 12 2011
Russia
Nagorno-Karabakh cannot receive any legal status without Baku's
approval, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said at a government
meeting that focused on the first half-year results of Azerbaijan's
socio-economic development on Tuesday.
"Azeri citizens must return to all the lands currently occupied before
peace and cooperation can begin," he said.
"As regards the legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh, the 2009 principles
stated that this issue is a question of the future, which can be
resoled in event of an agreement between the parties. In other
words, without Azerbaijan's consent, there can be no legal status
for Nagorno-Karabakh," Aliyev said.
"And this is why I spoke about it repeatedly before and want to say
it once again that the secession of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan,
granting it independence or its annexation to Armenia has never been
and never will be a subject of negotiations. Neither the leadership
nor the people of Azerbaijan will accept it," Aliyev said.
Meanwhile, one of the factors that caused the current intensification
of global efforts in the Karabakh settlement process is the growing
might of Azerbaijan and its army, he said.
The latest statements by the leaders of the countries mediating the
conflict about the unacceptability of the status quo in the Karabakh
conflict are encouraging, he said.
At a meeting in Sochi in March 2011, thanks to the mediation of Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev, Azerbaijan accepted a renewed version of the
Madrid Principles presented by the mediators in 2009, whereas Armenia
has been using various pretexts to avoid a similar step, Aliyev said.