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SERZH SARGSYAN: ARMENIA AGAINST UNILATERAL CONCESSIONS
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 23, 2011
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia is against unilateral concessions, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan stated on the eve of June 24 Kazan meeting
on Karabakh issue.
"We are for bilateral concessions. Must we make concessions with
a state that is prepared to train weapons on us? As I noted during
PACE plenary session, intolerance and Armenophobia are prevailing in
Azerbaijan, according to the report of European Committee againstRacism
and Intolerance. This, however, is not the case in Armenia. We must
put and end to intolerance and build a future on mutual trust,"
the President stated in an interview with Euronews.
Commenting on his vision of breaking the deadlock, while refusing to
negotiate a peace agreement without the right to self-determination
for Nagorno Karabakh, with Azerbaijan rejecting the condition, the
President noted, "if Azerbaijan does not accept the principle of
self-determination, then how can they say that Madrid principles are
the foundations on which we must continue the negotiations and find
a solution to the problem?"
As the President reminded, the document envisaged observation of the
3 principles: non-use of force, territorial integrity and people's
right to self-determination. "Not only principles backed by Armenian
side were written into Madrid document. It seems a bit strange that
for years Azerbaijan has negotiated on a document, when it does not
even accept one of the basic principles."
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 23, 2011
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia is against unilateral concessions, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan stated on the eve of June 24 Kazan meeting
on Karabakh issue.
"We are for bilateral concessions. Must we make concessions with
a state that is prepared to train weapons on us? As I noted during
PACE plenary session, intolerance and Armenophobia are prevailing in
Azerbaijan, according to the report of European Committee againstRacism
and Intolerance. This, however, is not the case in Armenia. We must
put and end to intolerance and build a future on mutual trust,"
the President stated in an interview with Euronews.
Commenting on his vision of breaking the deadlock, while refusing to
negotiate a peace agreement without the right to self-determination
for Nagorno Karabakh, with Azerbaijan rejecting the condition, the
President noted, "if Azerbaijan does not accept the principle of
self-determination, then how can they say that Madrid principles are
the foundations on which we must continue the negotiations and find
a solution to the problem?"
As the President reminded, the document envisaged observation of the
3 principles: non-use of force, territorial integrity and people's
right to self-determination. "Not only principles backed by Armenian
side were written into Madrid document. It seems a bit strange that
for years Azerbaijan has negotiated on a document, when it does not
even accept one of the basic principles."