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PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA: WORLD COMMUNITY FOLLOWS DOUBLE STANDARDS IN KARABAKH ISSUE
arminfo
Thursday, October 25, 16:03
The world community applies double standards to the Karabakh issue,
President of Armenia Serhz Sargsyan said in an interview with the
Italian Quotidiano Nazionale.
In response to the Italian journalist's pessimism about the Karabakh
peace process due to Azerbaijan's oil influence, the Armenian president
called that factor another display of double standards. The Kosovo
issue was settled through international military interference,
the president said, while there is overall negligence regarding the
Karabakh issue.
The president said that the oil factor is dominant as regards promotion
of Azerbaijan's stance, but this factor cannot prevail over other
issues forever. One of the latest news is that Azerbaijan tries to
oppose BP's presence, though the given corporation has always had an
important part in the economy of Azerbaijan. In Baku they think that
they can get rid of the British presence, consequently, the balances
may change, Serzh Sargsyan said.
President Sargsyan said that the negotiations on the Karabakh
conflict's resolution will be a success if Azerbaijan stops fanaticism
and intolerance.
"The fact that Azerbaijan has glorified the criminal who killed a
sleeping Armenian was nothing but a display of fanaticism," Serzh
Sargsyan said.
He said that Armenia's stance coincides with the stance of the OSCE
Minsk Group that insists on a diplomatic solution to the conflict
on the basis of the following three international principles:
the people's right to self-determination, non-use of force, and
territorial integrity.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians. In
1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in mediation
of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Protocol on
Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far. Since 1992 the OSCE
Minsk Group represented by co- chairs from Russia, U.S. and France has
been mediating in resolution of the conflict unleashed by Azerbaijan
in 1988. At present the peace process is based on the Madrid Principles
suggested by the OSCE MG in 2007 in Madrid and renovated in 2009.
arminfo
Thursday, October 25, 16:03
The world community applies double standards to the Karabakh issue,
President of Armenia Serhz Sargsyan said in an interview with the
Italian Quotidiano Nazionale.
In response to the Italian journalist's pessimism about the Karabakh
peace process due to Azerbaijan's oil influence, the Armenian president
called that factor another display of double standards. The Kosovo
issue was settled through international military interference,
the president said, while there is overall negligence regarding the
Karabakh issue.
The president said that the oil factor is dominant as regards promotion
of Azerbaijan's stance, but this factor cannot prevail over other
issues forever. One of the latest news is that Azerbaijan tries to
oppose BP's presence, though the given corporation has always had an
important part in the economy of Azerbaijan. In Baku they think that
they can get rid of the British presence, consequently, the balances
may change, Serzh Sargsyan said.
President Sargsyan said that the negotiations on the Karabakh
conflict's resolution will be a success if Azerbaijan stops fanaticism
and intolerance.
"The fact that Azerbaijan has glorified the criminal who killed a
sleeping Armenian was nothing but a display of fanaticism," Serzh
Sargsyan said.
He said that Armenia's stance coincides with the stance of the OSCE
Minsk Group that insists on a diplomatic solution to the conflict
on the basis of the following three international principles:
the people's right to self-determination, non-use of force, and
territorial integrity.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians. In
1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in mediation
of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Protocol on
Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far. Since 1992 the OSCE
Minsk Group represented by co- chairs from Russia, U.S. and France has
been mediating in resolution of the conflict unleashed by Azerbaijan
in 1988. At present the peace process is based on the Madrid Principles
suggested by the OSCE MG in 2007 in Madrid and renovated in 2009.