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STEPANAKERT WANTS FULL PARTICIPATION IN TALKS
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
with their respective foreign ministers during Tuesday's meeting
in Vienna
STEPANAKERT-One day after a meeting between presidents Serzh Sarkisian
and Ilham Aliyev in Vienna, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign
Ministry issued a statement in which it emphasized the importance of
including Karabakh in the negotiation process, reported the respective
press offices.
"The resumption of high level meetings between the Presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan after a long break is important from the
perspective of the intensification of the peaceful settlement process
of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Karabakh and maintaining peace
and stability in the region," said the statement.
"We believe that the meeting proves that there is no alternative to
the peaceful settlement and serves to ensure its irreversibility,"
added the statement.
"At the same time, we consider it necessary to note that real
progress in the settlement process could only be reached by taking
into consideration the existing realities and with the restoration
of full-format negotiations with direct and immediate participation
of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in all its stages," said the ministry.
Speaking to students on the eve of the summit, Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic President Bako Sahakian emphasized that he has expressed to
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen his trepidations about the so-called
Madrid Principles, on which the negotiations are based.
"We have always had reservation regarding the Madrid Principles,
and we have said this on many occasions," said Sahakian, signaling
that official Stepanakert is anticipating new approaches from the
mediators, without undermining the role of the Minsk Group co-chairmen.
Sahakian also told student about certain agreements reached with the
co-chairmen in 2007, among them an understanding that any meeting
taking place between the co-chairmen and Karabakh authorities must
take place in Stepanakert.
"In 2007 I told the Co-Chairs I refuse to meet with them in Yerevan.
They respect my request and continue to visit Artsakh themselves,"
explained Sahakian.
http://asbarez.com/116448/stepanakert-wants-full-participation-in-talks/
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
with their respective foreign ministers during Tuesday's meeting
in Vienna
STEPANAKERT-One day after a meeting between presidents Serzh Sarkisian
and Ilham Aliyev in Vienna, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign
Ministry issued a statement in which it emphasized the importance of
including Karabakh in the negotiation process, reported the respective
press offices.
"The resumption of high level meetings between the Presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan after a long break is important from the
perspective of the intensification of the peaceful settlement process
of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Karabakh and maintaining peace
and stability in the region," said the statement.
"We believe that the meeting proves that there is no alternative to
the peaceful settlement and serves to ensure its irreversibility,"
added the statement.
"At the same time, we consider it necessary to note that real
progress in the settlement process could only be reached by taking
into consideration the existing realities and with the restoration
of full-format negotiations with direct and immediate participation
of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in all its stages," said the ministry.
Speaking to students on the eve of the summit, Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic President Bako Sahakian emphasized that he has expressed to
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen his trepidations about the so-called
Madrid Principles, on which the negotiations are based.
"We have always had reservation regarding the Madrid Principles,
and we have said this on many occasions," said Sahakian, signaling
that official Stepanakert is anticipating new approaches from the
mediators, without undermining the role of the Minsk Group co-chairmen.
Sahakian also told student about certain agreements reached with the
co-chairmen in 2007, among them an understanding that any meeting
taking place between the co-chairmen and Karabakh authorities must
take place in Stepanakert.
"In 2007 I told the Co-Chairs I refuse to meet with them in Yerevan.
They respect my request and continue to visit Artsakh themselves,"
explained Sahakian.
http://asbarez.com/116448/stepanakert-wants-full-participation-in-talks/