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AZERBAIJANI FM: ARMENIA SHOULD REASSESS VALUES
Trend Daily News
July 19, 2011 Tuesday 2:23 PM GMT +4
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov stated that Armenia
needs to reassess values.
"Azerbaijan has a maximum position, which can be formulated as the
restoration of full sovereign control over the Nagorno-Karabakh
region. Not just to restore the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,
but establish a direct vertical sovereign control over the territory
and population living there", Azimov said in an interview with the
Echo Moskvy radio station.
He said Azerbaijan stepped to the middle of the bridge and stated
about its readiness to show flexibility, meaning the various models
of self-government for the population of Nagorno-Karabakh region
within Azerbaijan. That is, the flexibility within the framework of
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
"We are ready for it and we went out to the middle of the bridge. But,
Armenia has an extreme position - Karabakh's separation from
Azerbaijan, they do not hide this and all the time talking about
independence," he added.
Azimov stated, on the other hand all those positions that Armenia
is trying to introduce into the settlement process, aimed not at
preserving the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and Karabakh in its
composition, reintegration, but at its disintegration. The fact the
Armenian recently began talking about the fact that Azerbaijanis will
not return in Karabakh, and so on, is a statement of such a position.
Because, Azimov said, Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh is the
restoration of the region's demographics, restoration of equality of
the two communities in the region and Azerbaijan - is an objective
factor to participate in the life of this region, in its recovery.
"If we see that complex twists and turns occurs on the corridor [the
Lachin corridor], and the Armenian side insists on its hard-sided,
military control of these territories, which they are considering
a very broad parameters under the name of the corridor, then we
would have no doubt that the Armenian side tends to the separation,"
he added.
"We would like to see they still had reappraisal and think about what
they got today and what they lost and that they will acquire in the
future as a result of this action," he said.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.
Trend Daily News
July 19, 2011 Tuesday 2:23 PM GMT +4
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov stated that Armenia
needs to reassess values.
"Azerbaijan has a maximum position, which can be formulated as the
restoration of full sovereign control over the Nagorno-Karabakh
region. Not just to restore the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,
but establish a direct vertical sovereign control over the territory
and population living there", Azimov said in an interview with the
Echo Moskvy radio station.
He said Azerbaijan stepped to the middle of the bridge and stated
about its readiness to show flexibility, meaning the various models
of self-government for the population of Nagorno-Karabakh region
within Azerbaijan. That is, the flexibility within the framework of
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
"We are ready for it and we went out to the middle of the bridge. But,
Armenia has an extreme position - Karabakh's separation from
Azerbaijan, they do not hide this and all the time talking about
independence," he added.
Azimov stated, on the other hand all those positions that Armenia
is trying to introduce into the settlement process, aimed not at
preserving the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and Karabakh in its
composition, reintegration, but at its disintegration. The fact the
Armenian recently began talking about the fact that Azerbaijanis will
not return in Karabakh, and so on, is a statement of such a position.
Because, Azimov said, Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh is the
restoration of the region's demographics, restoration of equality of
the two communities in the region and Azerbaijan - is an objective
factor to participate in the life of this region, in its recovery.
"If we see that complex twists and turns occurs on the corridor [the
Lachin corridor], and the Armenian side insists on its hard-sided,
military control of these territories, which they are considering
a very broad parameters under the name of the corridor, then we
would have no doubt that the Armenian side tends to the separation,"
he added.
"We would like to see they still had reappraisal and think about what
they got today and what they lost and that they will acquire in the
future as a result of this action," he said.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.