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TIGRAN SARGSYAN: OPENING OF THE STEPANAKERT AIRPORT IS AN UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINED NAGORNO KARABAKH
ARMINFO
Monday, November 26, 17:46
Opening of the Stepanakert Airport is an unalienable right of self-
determined Nagorno Karabakh, Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan
said in an interview with Interfax.
"Airport is a vital corridor for the people living in Nagorno Karabakh
to build their lives in line with the international principles in
the 21st century. I think that there can be no problems and they will
make normal flights, because there is just one road linking Nagorno
Karabakh to the world," Sargsyan said. The prime minister said that
just technical problems are currently being settled to bring the
transportation and service in line with the necessary standards.
Regular flights will be launched as soon as all the technical issues
are settled, he said.
Asked if they will take into account the calls of the U.S. Department
of State, for instance, to try to settle the problem in a different
way, the prime minister recalled that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
have already declared their stance and the USA is a co-chair state
of the OSCE MG. The premier said that it is inadmissible to isolate
the Nagorno Karabakh people from the world community, for it is an
absurd in the 21st century.
"Quite on the contract, if we advocate peaceful resolution of the
conflict, we must create normal conditions for life in Nagorno Karabakh
instead of aggression and blockade. We ought to create normal living
conditions," he said.
To recall, earlier Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE MG Igor Popov said
that opening of the Stepanakert Airport in the given circumstances
may increase tension between the parties. At the same time, he said,
the issues must be regulated through diplomatic efforts and building
on the existing experience.
ARMINFO
Monday, November 26, 17:46
Opening of the Stepanakert Airport is an unalienable right of self-
determined Nagorno Karabakh, Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan
said in an interview with Interfax.
"Airport is a vital corridor for the people living in Nagorno Karabakh
to build their lives in line with the international principles in
the 21st century. I think that there can be no problems and they will
make normal flights, because there is just one road linking Nagorno
Karabakh to the world," Sargsyan said. The prime minister said that
just technical problems are currently being settled to bring the
transportation and service in line with the necessary standards.
Regular flights will be launched as soon as all the technical issues
are settled, he said.
Asked if they will take into account the calls of the U.S. Department
of State, for instance, to try to settle the problem in a different
way, the prime minister recalled that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
have already declared their stance and the USA is a co-chair state
of the OSCE MG. The premier said that it is inadmissible to isolate
the Nagorno Karabakh people from the world community, for it is an
absurd in the 21st century.
"Quite on the contract, if we advocate peaceful resolution of the
conflict, we must create normal conditions for life in Nagorno Karabakh
instead of aggression and blockade. We ought to create normal living
conditions," he said.
To recall, earlier Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE MG Igor Popov said
that opening of the Stepanakert Airport in the given circumstances
may increase tension between the parties. At the same time, he said,
the issues must be regulated through diplomatic efforts and building
on the existing experience.