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SAMVEL FARMANYAN: NAGORNO-KARABAKH SHOULD NOT SUFFER FROM THE EU'S DISCONTENT WITH ARMENIA'S POLICY
by Ashot Safaryan
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=DBBDF3A0-3CAB-11E3-844E0EB7C0D21663
Thursday, October 24, 16:57
Nagorno-Karabakh should not suffer from the EU's discontent with
Armenia's policy, Samvel Farmanyan, MP from the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia, Co-chairman of the Commission for Armenia-EU
Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, told ArmInfo when commenting on the
European Parliament's resolution on the European Neighborhood.
Farmanyan said that the document's provisions run counter to the
European Union's official stance on the Karabakh conflict, as well
as to the whole logic of the Karabakh peace process in the OSCE Minsk
Group format.
"I remember no other resolution to contain so rough and unilateral
assessments divorced from the reality. Certainly, here we cannot
neglect the circumstance that the adoption of this resolution reflects
the situational approach in relation to the latest developments
(Armenia's decision to join the Customs Union - editor's note). I
think our partners in the European Parliament are guided by wrong
considerations", he said.
The MP said that the Karabakh peace process has its own peculiar
format. Moreover, when Azerbaijan displays a non-constructive stance,
torpedoes all the initiatives to enhance confidence, undermines the
efforts to prevent the incidents on the Line of Contact and fails to
implement its commitments, the adoption of such a unilateral resolution
hampers the peace process.
Farmanyan is also concerned about the fact that the resolution
directly links the signing of the Association Agreement by Armenia
and Azerbaijan with the Karabakh conflict settlement. "I think
it is necessary to actively work with the European Parliament, to
present the specificity of the situation in the conflict zone and
to make Europe understand that even in case of certain discontent
and unjustified hopes connected with the Armenia-EU relations, one
should never direct the discontent against Nagorno-Karabakh", he said.
To recall, at the plenary session of the European Parliament on 23
October, a draft resolution on the European Neighborhood was adopted.
Azerbaijani media outlets report that in the paragraph #16, the
resolution "denounces the occupation by one country of the Eastern
Partnership of the territory of another and states that the settlement
of Armenian Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh Conflict should comply with
UN Security Council Resolutions."
The document "recalls its position that the occupation by one country
of the Eastern Partnership of the territory of another violates the
fundamental principles and objectives of the Eastern Partnership
and that the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should
comply with UN Security Council resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884
of 1993 and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) Minsk Group Basic Principles, enshrined in the L'Aquila joint
statement of 10 July 2009".
by Ashot Safaryan
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=DBBDF3A0-3CAB-11E3-844E0EB7C0D21663
Thursday, October 24, 16:57
Nagorno-Karabakh should not suffer from the EU's discontent with
Armenia's policy, Samvel Farmanyan, MP from the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia, Co-chairman of the Commission for Armenia-EU
Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, told ArmInfo when commenting on the
European Parliament's resolution on the European Neighborhood.
Farmanyan said that the document's provisions run counter to the
European Union's official stance on the Karabakh conflict, as well
as to the whole logic of the Karabakh peace process in the OSCE Minsk
Group format.
"I remember no other resolution to contain so rough and unilateral
assessments divorced from the reality. Certainly, here we cannot
neglect the circumstance that the adoption of this resolution reflects
the situational approach in relation to the latest developments
(Armenia's decision to join the Customs Union - editor's note). I
think our partners in the European Parliament are guided by wrong
considerations", he said.
The MP said that the Karabakh peace process has its own peculiar
format. Moreover, when Azerbaijan displays a non-constructive stance,
torpedoes all the initiatives to enhance confidence, undermines the
efforts to prevent the incidents on the Line of Contact and fails to
implement its commitments, the adoption of such a unilateral resolution
hampers the peace process.
Farmanyan is also concerned about the fact that the resolution
directly links the signing of the Association Agreement by Armenia
and Azerbaijan with the Karabakh conflict settlement. "I think
it is necessary to actively work with the European Parliament, to
present the specificity of the situation in the conflict zone and
to make Europe understand that even in case of certain discontent
and unjustified hopes connected with the Armenia-EU relations, one
should never direct the discontent against Nagorno-Karabakh", he said.
To recall, at the plenary session of the European Parliament on 23
October, a draft resolution on the European Neighborhood was adopted.
Azerbaijani media outlets report that in the paragraph #16, the
resolution "denounces the occupation by one country of the Eastern
Partnership of the territory of another and states that the settlement
of Armenian Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh Conflict should comply with
UN Security Council Resolutions."
The document "recalls its position that the occupation by one country
of the Eastern Partnership of the territory of another violates the
fundamental principles and objectives of the Eastern Partnership
and that the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should
comply with UN Security Council resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884
of 1993 and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) Minsk Group Basic Principles, enshrined in the L'Aquila joint
statement of 10 July 2009".