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Azerbaijan's policies hampered progress in Kazan - expert
12:46 - 25.06.11
Azerbaijan's policies hampered progress in Kazan, an Armenian expert has said.
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, political analyst Hrant
Melik Shahnazaryan said that ahead of the trialteral presidential
meeting in Kazan, Russia, Azerbaijan had proposed ten amendments to
the final version of the Basic Principles, but as those proposals were
unacceptable to Armenia, the parties restricted themselves only to a
joint statement.
"Experience shows that negotiations which drag on for years do not
produce any result," he said, stressing the need of amending the Minsk
Group format.
The expert noted that new formats create new opportunities and added
in the meantime that it's not very easy to elaborate clauses enabling
the parties to agree to a long-term peace.
Melik Shahnazaryan stressed the importance of adopting radical changes
that would help keep the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) issue under a
permanent spotlight.
He further blamed Azerbaijan for hampering progress at the Kazan meeting.
"The policy of torpedoing talks is a way of searching [new] variants;
we are ready for that too," he said.
Considering the Kazan meeting as a pre-preliminary move towards the
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Melik Shahnazaryan ruled
out the possibility of mutual concessions cannot at the current stage.
Tert.am
12:46 - 25.06.11
Azerbaijan's policies hampered progress in Kazan, an Armenian expert has said.
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, political analyst Hrant
Melik Shahnazaryan said that ahead of the trialteral presidential
meeting in Kazan, Russia, Azerbaijan had proposed ten amendments to
the final version of the Basic Principles, but as those proposals were
unacceptable to Armenia, the parties restricted themselves only to a
joint statement.
"Experience shows that negotiations which drag on for years do not
produce any result," he said, stressing the need of amending the Minsk
Group format.
The expert noted that new formats create new opportunities and added
in the meantime that it's not very easy to elaborate clauses enabling
the parties to agree to a long-term peace.
Melik Shahnazaryan stressed the importance of adopting radical changes
that would help keep the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) issue under a
permanent spotlight.
He further blamed Azerbaijan for hampering progress at the Kazan meeting.
"The policy of torpedoing talks is a way of searching [new] variants;
we are ready for that too," he said.
Considering the Kazan meeting as a pre-preliminary move towards the
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Melik Shahnazaryan ruled
out the possibility of mutual concessions cannot at the current stage.
Tert.am