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ARMENIAN FM: TYPICAL OF BAKU TO BACKTRACK ON AGREEMENTS REACHED
December 7, 2012 - 19:21 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia highly appreciates the efforts of the heads
of the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chair states, aimed at the settlement of
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, RA Foreign Minister said.
"Latest statement adopted in Los Cabos in June by Presidents Vladimir
Putin, Barack Obama and Francois Hollande, is the fourth one made by
the heads of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries on the Karabakh
issue. It is clear who the key messages are addressed to. Armenia is
unanimous with the Co-Chair countries in achieving exclusively peaceful
settlement of the conflict. We have repeatedly urged to respect the
ceasefire agreement of May 1994 and to abstain from hostile rhetoric,
which fosters feelings of enmity and increases tension," Edward
Nalbandian said at Dublin-hosted OSCE ministerial council meeting.
"As the United States, Russia and France, we also regret that in
spite of the call in the joint statement of Deauville of May 2011
breakthrough was not achieved at the Kazan Summit in June 2011,
and it was because of Azerbaijan's non-constructive position.
While Armenia values the three Co-Chairs' efforts for the continuation
of the negotiating process and preservation of peace, we witness
continuous Azerbaijani campaign against the Minsk Group Co-Chairs
which have the mandate of OSCE as the only negotiating format for the
settlement of Karabakh issue. The Azerbaijani officials are trying
to take the negotiation process out of this format, to replace the
mediators, to denigrate Co-Chairs' efforts to find a negotiated
solution. The Azerbaijani side is also continuously assaulting the
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, in spite
of his and his team's efforts not to allow the escalation of the
situation on the ground.
It has become habitual for Azerbaijan to backtrack even on agreements
to which it had previously consented to. Despite the agreement on
the creation of a mechanism to investigate the ceasefire violations,
as you know, Azerbaijan did everything to prevent its creation,
even threatening to veto the entire OSCE budget.
This was the case again after the Sochi Summit of January of this
year. Despite the reached agreement to accelerate accord on the Basic
Principles for a Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, confirmed
by Los Cabos Statement, Azerbaijan by its maximalist approaches is
seeking one sided advantage in the negotiating process and is doing
everything possible to neglect, even to reject this agreement.
Regardless of Azerbaijan's destructive stance, Armenia will continue
its efforts towards the settlement of Karabakh problem exclusively
through peaceful means and on the basis of the purposes, principles
and norms reflected in the UN Charter and the provisions of L'Aquila,
Muskoka, Deauville and Los Cabos statements of the three Co-Chair
countries' Presidents," he said.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/136369/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
December 7, 2012 - 19:21 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia highly appreciates the efforts of the heads
of the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chair states, aimed at the settlement of
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, RA Foreign Minister said.
"Latest statement adopted in Los Cabos in June by Presidents Vladimir
Putin, Barack Obama and Francois Hollande, is the fourth one made by
the heads of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries on the Karabakh
issue. It is clear who the key messages are addressed to. Armenia is
unanimous with the Co-Chair countries in achieving exclusively peaceful
settlement of the conflict. We have repeatedly urged to respect the
ceasefire agreement of May 1994 and to abstain from hostile rhetoric,
which fosters feelings of enmity and increases tension," Edward
Nalbandian said at Dublin-hosted OSCE ministerial council meeting.
"As the United States, Russia and France, we also regret that in
spite of the call in the joint statement of Deauville of May 2011
breakthrough was not achieved at the Kazan Summit in June 2011,
and it was because of Azerbaijan's non-constructive position.
While Armenia values the three Co-Chairs' efforts for the continuation
of the negotiating process and preservation of peace, we witness
continuous Azerbaijani campaign against the Minsk Group Co-Chairs
which have the mandate of OSCE as the only negotiating format for the
settlement of Karabakh issue. The Azerbaijani officials are trying
to take the negotiation process out of this format, to replace the
mediators, to denigrate Co-Chairs' efforts to find a negotiated
solution. The Azerbaijani side is also continuously assaulting the
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, in spite
of his and his team's efforts not to allow the escalation of the
situation on the ground.
It has become habitual for Azerbaijan to backtrack even on agreements
to which it had previously consented to. Despite the agreement on
the creation of a mechanism to investigate the ceasefire violations,
as you know, Azerbaijan did everything to prevent its creation,
even threatening to veto the entire OSCE budget.
This was the case again after the Sochi Summit of January of this
year. Despite the reached agreement to accelerate accord on the Basic
Principles for a Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, confirmed
by Los Cabos Statement, Azerbaijan by its maximalist approaches is
seeking one sided advantage in the negotiating process and is doing
everything possible to neglect, even to reject this agreement.
Regardless of Azerbaijan's destructive stance, Armenia will continue
its efforts towards the settlement of Karabakh problem exclusively
through peaceful means and on the basis of the purposes, principles
and norms reflected in the UN Charter and the provisions of L'Aquila,
Muskoka, Deauville and Los Cabos statements of the three Co-Chair
countries' Presidents," he said.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/136369/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress