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"DIPLOMATIC CORRECTNESS THREATENS REGIONAL SECURITY", ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TOLD OSCE AMBASSADORS
Mediamax
Sept 7 2012
Armenia
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said today that
"the transfer of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan and his release "make
us seriously think about changing some of our approaches."
The President said this in Yerevan today at the meeting with the
ambassadors of a number of countries to the OSCE. As Mediamax has
learned, the U.S., Russian, Turkish and other countries' ambassadors
to the OSCE were present at the meeting.
"The principles and the comprehensive understanding of security of
the OSCE fully correspond to our vision. It's extremely important that
within the organization we have agreed to the idea that the security
of any country cannot be provided at the expense of the others. We
conscientiously fulfill all our tasks. But an event has happened
recently which makes us seriously think about changing our approaches.
A person who committed a brutal crime was immediately released in
Azerbaijan and we think that unfortunately this is not the last case.
Everything began after the OSCE Minsk Group proposed its option
of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement in 2007. Many people
remember how Azerbaijan refused that document, declaring then that
it was generally unacceptable. After that Azerbaijan began providing
its own comments to the principles.
You remember how they tried to comment on the right for
self-determination. You remember how they tried to comment on the word
"referendum". Then a show began. The essence of the show was to drag
out time, accumulate large supplies of arms and try to resolve the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict by force in suitable conditions," said
Serzh Sargsyan.
"We think that the purpose of justification of a murderer was not
that Aliyev needs to increase his image inside his country; this is
an attempt to test the reaction of the international community to
Azerbaijan's extraordinary steps. Otherwise, I think, there are a lot
of people in Azerbaijan including its leadership, who could clearly
see what consequences this step could have entailed.
And the testing of international community's patience, as I said,
has begun earlier, when many years ago the Azeris began to roughly
violate commitments provided by the Conventional Armed Forces Treaty
and nobody reacted to these rough violations. When the Azeri President
publicly instructed the National Academy of Sciences to write the
history of Azerbaijan where no Armenians should have been mentioned,
nobody paid attention to that fact. When Aliyev began to declare that
Yerevan and Armenia are Azerbaijani territories, nobody reacted to
that statement. When Aliyev stated that their "number one enemy"
is the Armenian nation and the enemy should be destroyed, nobody
reacted to that statement either. To all our appeals and warnings,
directed to both the Co-Chairs and the rest, that this is a begging
of a bad process, we received unacceptable answer. The answer is as
follows: Aliyev's statements are designed for the internal public. The
statements meant for the internal and foreign public cannot differ at
all. One can't think in one way during half of the day and then think
quite otherwise during the rest of it. Seeing this tolerance, Aliyev
has already passed from statements to actions. The first action was
made during the visit of the U.S. Secretary of State to the region when
several subversive activities have been undertaken on the contact line
and along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. And the reaction was weak
again. Now we are witnessing this extraordinary fact. And as I have
said, this is unfortunately not the end," the Armenian President said.
"You know, I am a man who has seen a war. This is why I don't want
a new war. I have personally felt the consequences of the war on my
own skin. I believe, no other country concerned with security in our
region wants war either. But the desire is not enough, actions should
be taken. And these actions should begin by calling the things by their
names. So to say, in the given situation the diplomatic correctness
threatens regional security," the Armenian President concluded.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Mediamax
Sept 7 2012
Armenia
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said today that
"the transfer of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan and his release "make
us seriously think about changing some of our approaches."
The President said this in Yerevan today at the meeting with the
ambassadors of a number of countries to the OSCE. As Mediamax has
learned, the U.S., Russian, Turkish and other countries' ambassadors
to the OSCE were present at the meeting.
"The principles and the comprehensive understanding of security of
the OSCE fully correspond to our vision. It's extremely important that
within the organization we have agreed to the idea that the security
of any country cannot be provided at the expense of the others. We
conscientiously fulfill all our tasks. But an event has happened
recently which makes us seriously think about changing our approaches.
A person who committed a brutal crime was immediately released in
Azerbaijan and we think that unfortunately this is not the last case.
Everything began after the OSCE Minsk Group proposed its option
of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement in 2007. Many people
remember how Azerbaijan refused that document, declaring then that
it was generally unacceptable. After that Azerbaijan began providing
its own comments to the principles.
You remember how they tried to comment on the right for
self-determination. You remember how they tried to comment on the word
"referendum". Then a show began. The essence of the show was to drag
out time, accumulate large supplies of arms and try to resolve the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict by force in suitable conditions," said
Serzh Sargsyan.
"We think that the purpose of justification of a murderer was not
that Aliyev needs to increase his image inside his country; this is
an attempt to test the reaction of the international community to
Azerbaijan's extraordinary steps. Otherwise, I think, there are a lot
of people in Azerbaijan including its leadership, who could clearly
see what consequences this step could have entailed.
And the testing of international community's patience, as I said,
has begun earlier, when many years ago the Azeris began to roughly
violate commitments provided by the Conventional Armed Forces Treaty
and nobody reacted to these rough violations. When the Azeri President
publicly instructed the National Academy of Sciences to write the
history of Azerbaijan where no Armenians should have been mentioned,
nobody paid attention to that fact. When Aliyev began to declare that
Yerevan and Armenia are Azerbaijani territories, nobody reacted to
that statement. When Aliyev stated that their "number one enemy"
is the Armenian nation and the enemy should be destroyed, nobody
reacted to that statement either. To all our appeals and warnings,
directed to both the Co-Chairs and the rest, that this is a begging
of a bad process, we received unacceptable answer. The answer is as
follows: Aliyev's statements are designed for the internal public. The
statements meant for the internal and foreign public cannot differ at
all. One can't think in one way during half of the day and then think
quite otherwise during the rest of it. Seeing this tolerance, Aliyev
has already passed from statements to actions. The first action was
made during the visit of the U.S. Secretary of State to the region when
several subversive activities have been undertaken on the contact line
and along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. And the reaction was weak
again. Now we are witnessing this extraordinary fact. And as I have
said, this is unfortunately not the end," the Armenian President said.
"You know, I am a man who has seen a war. This is why I don't want
a new war. I have personally felt the consequences of the war on my
own skin. I believe, no other country concerned with security in our
region wants war either. But the desire is not enough, actions should
be taken. And these actions should begin by calling the things by their
names. So to say, in the given situation the diplomatic correctness
threatens regional security," the Armenian President concluded.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress