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ARMENIAN OFFICIAL: AZERBAIJAN'S DOGGEDNESS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH RECOGNITION
15:34 ~U 27.06.13
With its dogged policies on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Azerbaijan
itself is contributing to the country's international recognition,
an Armenian deputy foreign minister has said, commenting on President
Ilham Aliyev's Wednesday statement stressing the need to re-establish
the country's territorial integrity at any price.
Speaking to Tert.am, Shavarsh Kocharyan said that statements of
the kind are targeted more at the domestic audience in an effort to
strengthen the image of an authoritarian regime.
"I have got tired of giving answers, and it is surprising that that
person {Aliyev} is never annoyed with repeating [the same thing]
every day. And the statement is made by a country which was sobbing
bitterly everywhere after suffering a defeat. If it were really
ready to make such a statement, it wouldn't voice it every day. The
statement is first of all targeted at the domestic audience because
the maintenance of an external enemy image transfers the hereditary
authoritarian regime," he said.
Asked to what extent it is right to keep negotiating with such a
country in the light of the OSCE Minsk Group's continuing calls for
a peaceful settlement without regard to the Azerbaijani threats,
Kocharyan answered that the peace talks have two basic objectives.
"The co-chairs are trying, on the one hand, to reconcile the
parties, but they won't reach [an agreement] as it is obvious to
all that Azerbaijan is the reason behind that. On the other hand,
Azerbaijan is facing a dilemma; it will otherwise contribute itself
to the international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh's as the status
quo continues.
The second objective, which Kocharyan considered equally important,
is the co-chairs' continuing efforts to prevent the 1994 ceasefire
from evolving into military operations. The deputy minister said
that the mediators' repeated statements stressing the importance of
an exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict are targeted at
such efforts.
"So no wonder that Azerbaijan is all the time trying to get rid of
the co-chairs' format or at least distort, as well as direct the issue
to other tribunals," the deputy FM said, considering the Minsk Group
mission a kind of strait jacket for the Azerbaijani authorities.
Armenian News - Tert.am
15:34 ~U 27.06.13
With its dogged policies on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Azerbaijan
itself is contributing to the country's international recognition,
an Armenian deputy foreign minister has said, commenting on President
Ilham Aliyev's Wednesday statement stressing the need to re-establish
the country's territorial integrity at any price.
Speaking to Tert.am, Shavarsh Kocharyan said that statements of
the kind are targeted more at the domestic audience in an effort to
strengthen the image of an authoritarian regime.
"I have got tired of giving answers, and it is surprising that that
person {Aliyev} is never annoyed with repeating [the same thing]
every day. And the statement is made by a country which was sobbing
bitterly everywhere after suffering a defeat. If it were really
ready to make such a statement, it wouldn't voice it every day. The
statement is first of all targeted at the domestic audience because
the maintenance of an external enemy image transfers the hereditary
authoritarian regime," he said.
Asked to what extent it is right to keep negotiating with such a
country in the light of the OSCE Minsk Group's continuing calls for
a peaceful settlement without regard to the Azerbaijani threats,
Kocharyan answered that the peace talks have two basic objectives.
"The co-chairs are trying, on the one hand, to reconcile the
parties, but they won't reach [an agreement] as it is obvious to
all that Azerbaijan is the reason behind that. On the other hand,
Azerbaijan is facing a dilemma; it will otherwise contribute itself
to the international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh's as the status
quo continues.
The second objective, which Kocharyan considered equally important,
is the co-chairs' continuing efforts to prevent the 1994 ceasefire
from evolving into military operations. The deputy minister said
that the mediators' repeated statements stressing the importance of
an exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict are targeted at
such efforts.
"So no wonder that Azerbaijan is all the time trying to get rid of
the co-chairs' format or at least distort, as well as direct the issue
to other tribunals," the deputy FM said, considering the Minsk Group
mission a kind of strait jacket for the Azerbaijani authorities.
Armenian News - Tert.am