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EUFOA: MANY MEPS FIND AZERBAIJAN'S BEHAVIOR INAPPROPRIATE
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 19, 2012
PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 18, 2012, the European Parliament (EP)
adopted two resolutions in the context of the negotiations for the
new Association Agreements with Armenia and with Azerbaijan.
European Friends of Armenia (EuFoA) hails that the EP prevailed its
core values for the Eastern Partnership, especially on a continued
democratisation and a balanced approach to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict. The report is particularly supportive for Armenia but also
reminds of the remaining homework, EuFoA stresses.
"The reports are very supportive and they also contain some new
positive aspects for Armenia. The EP clearly acknowledges that Armenia
has become more European and calls for more EU assistance for this
process." comments EuFoA Secretary General Dr Michael Kambeck.
On Nagorno Karabakh, the EP strongly supports ALL points of the Minsk
Group's Madrid Principles as a package, including for the first time
explicitly "international security guarantees that would include
a genuine multinational peacekeeping operation in order to create
suitable conditions for the future legally-binding free expression
of will concerning the final status of Nagorno Karabakh".
Referring to Nagorno Karabakh, MEP Dr Andrey Kovatchev, member of the
Europe-Armenia Advisory Council, said in the Plenary that "it can only
be resolved by peaceful means within the framework of international
law and in accordance with the principles agreed in the Minsk Group.
The stronger role of the EU in the region requires us to be cautious
and correct in our assessments so that we should not be like a ball in
a china shop, and instead of helping to achieve a mutually acceptable
solution to the conflict [we might] actually make it more difficult."
On the same issue, Kambeck remarks that "the EP again fully supports
the OSCE Minsk Group efforts and defended this balanced position
against an unprecedented lobbying campaign from Azerbaijan. I am
glad that, once the MEPs looked into the issues more closely, they
recognised the traps. Many MEPs felt that this was very inappropriate."
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 19, 2012
PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 18, 2012, the European Parliament (EP)
adopted two resolutions in the context of the negotiations for the
new Association Agreements with Armenia and with Azerbaijan.
European Friends of Armenia (EuFoA) hails that the EP prevailed its
core values for the Eastern Partnership, especially on a continued
democratisation and a balanced approach to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict. The report is particularly supportive for Armenia but also
reminds of the remaining homework, EuFoA stresses.
"The reports are very supportive and they also contain some new
positive aspects for Armenia. The EP clearly acknowledges that Armenia
has become more European and calls for more EU assistance for this
process." comments EuFoA Secretary General Dr Michael Kambeck.
On Nagorno Karabakh, the EP strongly supports ALL points of the Minsk
Group's Madrid Principles as a package, including for the first time
explicitly "international security guarantees that would include
a genuine multinational peacekeeping operation in order to create
suitable conditions for the future legally-binding free expression
of will concerning the final status of Nagorno Karabakh".
Referring to Nagorno Karabakh, MEP Dr Andrey Kovatchev, member of the
Europe-Armenia Advisory Council, said in the Plenary that "it can only
be resolved by peaceful means within the framework of international
law and in accordance with the principles agreed in the Minsk Group.
The stronger role of the EU in the region requires us to be cautious
and correct in our assessments so that we should not be like a ball in
a china shop, and instead of helping to achieve a mutually acceptable
solution to the conflict [we might] actually make it more difficult."
On the same issue, Kambeck remarks that "the EP again fully supports
the OSCE Minsk Group efforts and defended this balanced position
against an unprecedented lobbying campaign from Azerbaijan. I am
glad that, once the MEPs looked into the issues more closely, they
recognised the traps. Many MEPs felt that this was very inappropriate."