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YEREVAN WANTS TO AGREE ON BASIC PRINCIPLES BEFORE ELABORATING KARABAKH PEACE AGREEMENT
Interfax
July 14 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan is dragging out Karabakh settlement negotiations, Armenian
Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said at the International Institute
for Strategic Studies in London.
He made the statement in commenting on Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
Elmar Mamedyarov's opinion that it would be senseless to waste time on
coordinating fundamental settlement principles and the sides should
proceed to the elaboration of a peace treaty right now, a source at
the Armenian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.
"The cochairmen [of the OSCE Minsk Group] have expressed their opinion
about the idea the Azerbaijani administration was expressing for two
years. If Azerbaijan cannot agree on fundamental principles, how is
it possible to speak about a peace treaty?" Nalbandian said.
"This position of Azerbaijan aims to rid of the fundamental principles
suggested by the cochairmen and, actually, to thwart the negotiations
of the recent years," he said.
Earlier, Mamedyarov urged Armenia to start work on a peace agreement
on the settlement of the Karabakh problem without delay.
"Certain progress has been made, I think, and we can quietly move
toward a peace agreement," he said in an interview with Interfax
in Baku.
Asked when Baku could start talks with Armenia on the peace agreement,
Mamedyarov said, "Right now, if they want."
"Media reports claim extensively that the Kazan summit was not
successful, but I disagree," Mamedyarov said on the meeting in Kazan
between the Russia, Azeri and Armenian presidents on June 24.
"I side better with the position that, first, rapprochement was
accomplished and this was reflected in the presidents' statement. And,
second, that Azerbaijan and Armenia must continue the talks without
any publicity stunts or hysterics, and work further to draw their
positions nearer," he said. "Moreover, Azerbaijan remains on the
position it had in 2010 after Sochi: we are prepared to start drafting
a peace accord with what has been achieved taken into account. Kazan
allowed us to move further," Mamedyarov said.
"We were aware that some unsettled elements still existed. But they
must in a way be reflected in the peace agreement. If the good will is
indeed there, let us start working on it right away, without waiting
for the next stage in the talks on the basic principles," he said.
"Inside the basis principles there are unsettled details. Why trebling
efforts to negotiate these elements, if they will be reflected in the
peace agreement anyway. Why make unnecessary fuss. Let us concentrate
right away on a peace agreement and demonstrate our political will to
the world, and show that we are prepared to start working at once on a
legally binding peace agreement rather than on a political document,"
Mamedyarov said.
Interfax
July 14 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan is dragging out Karabakh settlement negotiations, Armenian
Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said at the International Institute
for Strategic Studies in London.
He made the statement in commenting on Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
Elmar Mamedyarov's opinion that it would be senseless to waste time on
coordinating fundamental settlement principles and the sides should
proceed to the elaboration of a peace treaty right now, a source at
the Armenian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.
"The cochairmen [of the OSCE Minsk Group] have expressed their opinion
about the idea the Azerbaijani administration was expressing for two
years. If Azerbaijan cannot agree on fundamental principles, how is
it possible to speak about a peace treaty?" Nalbandian said.
"This position of Azerbaijan aims to rid of the fundamental principles
suggested by the cochairmen and, actually, to thwart the negotiations
of the recent years," he said.
Earlier, Mamedyarov urged Armenia to start work on a peace agreement
on the settlement of the Karabakh problem without delay.
"Certain progress has been made, I think, and we can quietly move
toward a peace agreement," he said in an interview with Interfax
in Baku.
Asked when Baku could start talks with Armenia on the peace agreement,
Mamedyarov said, "Right now, if they want."
"Media reports claim extensively that the Kazan summit was not
successful, but I disagree," Mamedyarov said on the meeting in Kazan
between the Russia, Azeri and Armenian presidents on June 24.
"I side better with the position that, first, rapprochement was
accomplished and this was reflected in the presidents' statement. And,
second, that Azerbaijan and Armenia must continue the talks without
any publicity stunts or hysterics, and work further to draw their
positions nearer," he said. "Moreover, Azerbaijan remains on the
position it had in 2010 after Sochi: we are prepared to start drafting
a peace accord with what has been achieved taken into account. Kazan
allowed us to move further," Mamedyarov said.
"We were aware that some unsettled elements still existed. But they
must in a way be reflected in the peace agreement. If the good will is
indeed there, let us start working on it right away, without waiting
for the next stage in the talks on the basic principles," he said.
"Inside the basis principles there are unsettled details. Why trebling
efforts to negotiate these elements, if they will be reflected in the
peace agreement anyway. Why make unnecessary fuss. Let us concentrate
right away on a peace agreement and demonstrate our political will to
the world, and show that we are prepared to start working at once on a
legally binding peace agreement rather than on a political document,"
Mamedyarov said.