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Interfax, Russia
March 16 2012
Armenia again blames Nagorno-Karabakh deadlock on Azerbaijan
YEREVAN. March 16
Armenia has again blamed Azerbaijan for the stalled efforts to settle
the two countries' conflict over Azerbaijan's Armenian-speaking
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, accusing the Azeri government of
"constant departures" from agreements.
"The reason for the lack of progress toward the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are the constant departures of Azerbaijan
from agreements that have been reached," Armenian Foreign Minister
Edvard Nalbandian said at a joint news conference in Yerevan with his
German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle.
Nalbandian cited an Armenian-Azeri-Russian agreement to evolve a
mechanism for the investigation of incidents on the contact line
between the Armenian and Azeri armies as an example. The agreement was
reached at a meeting of the three countries' presidents in Sochi,
Russia.
"That is just one example, but during the year that has passed since
then, Azerbaijan has done everything possible to prevent such a
mechanism from being created," Nalbandian said.
"Each time we came to some kind of agreement, Azerbaijan would then
say, I can agree but I need about 10 changes to be made. In other
words, Azerbaijan has simply been going back on agreements that were
reached. And that is the reason for the lack of progress in
negotiations," he said.
Westerwelle called for a solution based on a balance between the
territorial integrity and self-determination principles. He complained
that the deadlock in the conflict settlement process was taking too
long and insisted that the Minsk Group, a body of the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe mediating in the conflict, look
for a compromise.
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March 16 2012
Armenia again blames Nagorno-Karabakh deadlock on Azerbaijan
YEREVAN. March 16
Armenia has again blamed Azerbaijan for the stalled efforts to settle
the two countries' conflict over Azerbaijan's Armenian-speaking
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, accusing the Azeri government of
"constant departures" from agreements.
"The reason for the lack of progress toward the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are the constant departures of Azerbaijan
from agreements that have been reached," Armenian Foreign Minister
Edvard Nalbandian said at a joint news conference in Yerevan with his
German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle.
Nalbandian cited an Armenian-Azeri-Russian agreement to evolve a
mechanism for the investigation of incidents on the contact line
between the Armenian and Azeri armies as an example. The agreement was
reached at a meeting of the three countries' presidents in Sochi,
Russia.
"That is just one example, but during the year that has passed since
then, Azerbaijan has done everything possible to prevent such a
mechanism from being created," Nalbandian said.
"Each time we came to some kind of agreement, Azerbaijan would then
say, I can agree but I need about 10 changes to be made. In other
words, Azerbaijan has simply been going back on agreements that were
reached. And that is the reason for the lack of progress in
negotiations," he said.
Westerwelle called for a solution based on a balance between the
territorial integrity and self-determination principles. He complained
that the deadlock in the conflict settlement process was taking too
long and insisted that the Minsk Group, a body of the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe mediating in the conflict, look
for a compromise.
as jv