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Interfax, Russia
June 18 2012
War will become inevitable if intl community does not get actively
involved in Karabakh conflict settlement - Azeri official
BAKU. June 18
Azerbaijan hopes for Russia's assistance in the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict, Ali Gasanov, deputy prime minister and chairman of
the Azeri State Committee on Refugees and Forced Migrants, said.
"Azerbaijan is now a hundred times more strategically important to
Russia than Armenia. The development of relations between Azerbaijan
and Russia in the recent years makes it possible to hope that Russia
will promote a prompt resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,"
Gasanov told an international ombudsmen's conference held in Baku on
Monday.
The reason why this conflict has still not been resolved is the
unconstructive attitude adopted by the Armenian administration and the
international community's indifference to the issue. "President Ilham
Aliyev said we don't want a war because it would hurt both Azeris and
Armenians. However, a war will become inevitable if the international
community continues to keep silent," he said.
"It is known that drugs are
cultivated and then sold on the occupied territories. Terrorist
organizations are formed on the occupied territories, which later
commit crimes in various regions of the world. When the UN Office on
Drugs and Crime decided to conduct a monitoring on the occupied Azeri
territories, Armenia opposed it," he said.
Gasanov said he does not expect progress in the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict under Armenia's incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan.
"I believe the problem will not be resolved until the Sargsyan
regime," he said.
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From: Baghdasarian
June 18 2012
War will become inevitable if intl community does not get actively
involved in Karabakh conflict settlement - Azeri official
BAKU. June 18
Azerbaijan hopes for Russia's assistance in the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict, Ali Gasanov, deputy prime minister and chairman of
the Azeri State Committee on Refugees and Forced Migrants, said.
"Azerbaijan is now a hundred times more strategically important to
Russia than Armenia. The development of relations between Azerbaijan
and Russia in the recent years makes it possible to hope that Russia
will promote a prompt resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,"
Gasanov told an international ombudsmen's conference held in Baku on
Monday.
The reason why this conflict has still not been resolved is the
unconstructive attitude adopted by the Armenian administration and the
international community's indifference to the issue. "President Ilham
Aliyev said we don't want a war because it would hurt both Azeris and
Armenians. However, a war will become inevitable if the international
community continues to keep silent," he said.
"It is known that drugs are
cultivated and then sold on the occupied territories. Terrorist
organizations are formed on the occupied territories, which later
commit crimes in various regions of the world. When the UN Office on
Drugs and Crime decided to conduct a monitoring on the occupied Azeri
territories, Armenia opposed it," he said.
Gasanov said he does not expect progress in the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict under Armenia's incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan.
"I believe the problem will not be resolved until the Sargsyan
regime," he said.
av jv
From: Baghdasarian