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CLINTON FACTOR: MG CO-CHAIRS IN PARIS TO SUBMIT NEW APPROACHES TO KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
By Aris Ghazinyan
ArmeniaNow
18.06.12 | 13:21
Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are meeting co-chairs
of OSCE Minsk Group in Paris today to discuss a number of new ideas,
US Ambassador in Armenia John Heffern said in an interview to RFL/RF.
The Paris meeting was first talked about during US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's recent visit to the region; moreover, Clinton
stated in Baku that "in Paris a new approach to the settlement of
the Karabakh conflict will be presented to the Foreign Ministers of
Armenia and Azerbaijan".
It is noteworthy that Clinton's visit was accompanied by incidents
in various sections of the Armenian-Azeri border, which led to the
deaths of at least seven Azeris and four Armenian servicemen.
Condemning these incidents, Clinton stated in Yerevan and Baku that
solving the Karabakh issue by force is not an option.
"The peaceful settlement of the conflict has to be based on the
principles of the Helsinki Final Act, and no principle can be separated
from the others," the US Secretary of State said during her press
conference in Yerevan.
Experts in Armenia responded quite positively to this statement.
The Helsinki Final Act (otherwise known as Helsinki Accords or Helsinki
Declaration) signed in 1975 states in Paragraph 8 (Equal Rights and
Self-Determination of Peoples):
"By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination
of peoples, all peoples always have the right, in full freedom,
to determine, when and as they wish, their internal and external
political status, without external interference, and to pursue as
they wish their political, economic, social and cultural development."
Thus, Clinton's statement that the conflict settlement "has to be
based on the principles of Helsinki Final Act" and that "no principle
can be separated from the others" did not exclude the possibility of
the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh's recognition as an independent state.
The fact of recognition of more than 30 new states over the past two
decades indicates that recognition of new independent entities of
international law is an ongoing process and is based on the principle
of people's right to self-determination in full accord with the
provisions of UN Charter and principles of the Helsinki Final Act.
It will become known by June 19 whether the US Secretary of State's
statement in Yerevan will be taken into account when "new approaches"
are introduced in Paris.
By Aris Ghazinyan
ArmeniaNow
18.06.12 | 13:21
Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are meeting co-chairs
of OSCE Minsk Group in Paris today to discuss a number of new ideas,
US Ambassador in Armenia John Heffern said in an interview to RFL/RF.
The Paris meeting was first talked about during US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's recent visit to the region; moreover, Clinton
stated in Baku that "in Paris a new approach to the settlement of
the Karabakh conflict will be presented to the Foreign Ministers of
Armenia and Azerbaijan".
It is noteworthy that Clinton's visit was accompanied by incidents
in various sections of the Armenian-Azeri border, which led to the
deaths of at least seven Azeris and four Armenian servicemen.
Condemning these incidents, Clinton stated in Yerevan and Baku that
solving the Karabakh issue by force is not an option.
"The peaceful settlement of the conflict has to be based on the
principles of the Helsinki Final Act, and no principle can be separated
from the others," the US Secretary of State said during her press
conference in Yerevan.
Experts in Armenia responded quite positively to this statement.
The Helsinki Final Act (otherwise known as Helsinki Accords or Helsinki
Declaration) signed in 1975 states in Paragraph 8 (Equal Rights and
Self-Determination of Peoples):
"By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination
of peoples, all peoples always have the right, in full freedom,
to determine, when and as they wish, their internal and external
political status, without external interference, and to pursue as
they wish their political, economic, social and cultural development."
Thus, Clinton's statement that the conflict settlement "has to be
based on the principles of Helsinki Final Act" and that "no principle
can be separated from the others" did not exclude the possibility of
the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh's recognition as an independent state.
The fact of recognition of more than 30 new states over the past two
decades indicates that recognition of new independent entities of
international law is an ongoing process and is based on the principle
of people's right to self-determination in full accord with the
provisions of UN Charter and principles of the Helsinki Final Act.
It will become known by June 19 whether the US Secretary of State's
statement in Yerevan will be taken into account when "new approaches"
are introduced in Paris.