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AZERBAIJAN WANTS KARABAKH TO BE ADDRESSED AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL - FOREIGN MINISTER
Interfax
Oct 26 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan will ask its partners at the UN Security Council to
address prospects for discussing a settlement of the conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh by this body, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov said.
"To put forward such initiatives for the UN Security Council
consideration, it is necessary first to win support from the five
Security Council permanent members. We have not yet discussed this
issue but we will bring it up," Mammadyarov said at a joint press
conference with his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze.
The votes of 155 countries in support for electing Azerbaijan to
the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member has even surpassed
Baku's expectations, and this signals that the country enjoys strong
support in the international arena, he said.
Azerbaijan will be chairing the UN Security Council in May or September
2012, he said.
As for negotiations on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Mammadyarov said the process is continuing, and "nobody expects that
all issues will be settled overnight."
The beginning of work on a peace agreement already now would be "a
strong signal that we are working in the right direction and are not
dragging this out," he said.
Until Armenian troops are withdrawn from Azeri territory, incidents
similar to the killing of two Azeri children by snipers will continue
happening at the contact line, Mammadyarov said.
"If we manage to ensure pullout of Armenian troops, there will be no
need for snipers, and children will not be dying," he said.
"Sooner or later, Nagorno-Karabakh's status will have to be settled,
but what we expect most of all is Armenia's understanding that the
biggest problem is the presence of Armenian troops on our territory,"
he said.
This is why Azerbaijan has proposed that Armenian troops be first of
all pulled out of seven districts around Nagorno-Karabakh, he said.
Interfax
Oct 26 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan will ask its partners at the UN Security Council to
address prospects for discussing a settlement of the conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh by this body, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov said.
"To put forward such initiatives for the UN Security Council
consideration, it is necessary first to win support from the five
Security Council permanent members. We have not yet discussed this
issue but we will bring it up," Mammadyarov said at a joint press
conference with his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze.
The votes of 155 countries in support for electing Azerbaijan to
the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member has even surpassed
Baku's expectations, and this signals that the country enjoys strong
support in the international arena, he said.
Azerbaijan will be chairing the UN Security Council in May or September
2012, he said.
As for negotiations on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Mammadyarov said the process is continuing, and "nobody expects that
all issues will be settled overnight."
The beginning of work on a peace agreement already now would be "a
strong signal that we are working in the right direction and are not
dragging this out," he said.
Until Armenian troops are withdrawn from Azeri territory, incidents
similar to the killing of two Azeri children by snipers will continue
happening at the contact line, Mammadyarov said.
"If we manage to ensure pullout of Armenian troops, there will be no
need for snipers, and children will not be dying," he said.
"Sooner or later, Nagorno-Karabakh's status will have to be settled,
but what we expect most of all is Armenia's understanding that the
biggest problem is the presence of Armenian troops on our territory,"
he said.
This is why Azerbaijan has proposed that Armenian troops be first of
all pulled out of seven districts around Nagorno-Karabakh, he said.