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CSTO'S BORDYUZHA SAYS PEACE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE KARABAKH KNOT
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 29 2014
29 December 2014, 15:01 (GMT+04:00)
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could be settled only by peaceful
political way, said Nikolai Bordyuzha, Head of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO).
"Peaceful resolution of the conflicts doesn't have any alternative
in the modern world. This is also applicable on the conflicts not
only in Ukraine, but also in Nagorno-Karabakh," Bordyuzha said.
He added that the problems in Ukraine need a peaceful agreement,
saying: "I opt for a peaceful resolution to all of these conflicts."
Bordyuzha said Ukraine was repeatedly offered to join the CSTO. "The
organization is still ready to cooperate with Kiev," he said. "In
particular, the country was invited to cooperate in the fields of
information security and combating the drug trafficking."
He noted that if Ukraine decides to join the CSTO, there will be
appropriate ground for cooperation.
Member states of the CSTO called for a peaceful settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a joint statement
issued during their most recent gathering in Moscow on December 23.
The alliance underlined the importance of completion of works on the
basic principles of the conflict's resolution.
According to the experts, including Alexander Golts, Alexei Malashenko,
Sergei Markov, Pavel Felgenhauer, the CSTO could not intervene in
the negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh problem, since it doesn't have
any right to be engaged in any process related to the conflict.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early
1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed
forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
regions.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE
Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by
the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. However,
the negotiations have been largely fruitless so far despite the
efforts of the co-chair countries for over 20 years.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
From: Baghdasarian
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 29 2014
29 December 2014, 15:01 (GMT+04:00)
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could be settled only by peaceful
political way, said Nikolai Bordyuzha, Head of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO).
"Peaceful resolution of the conflicts doesn't have any alternative
in the modern world. This is also applicable on the conflicts not
only in Ukraine, but also in Nagorno-Karabakh," Bordyuzha said.
He added that the problems in Ukraine need a peaceful agreement,
saying: "I opt for a peaceful resolution to all of these conflicts."
Bordyuzha said Ukraine was repeatedly offered to join the CSTO. "The
organization is still ready to cooperate with Kiev," he said. "In
particular, the country was invited to cooperate in the fields of
information security and combating the drug trafficking."
He noted that if Ukraine decides to join the CSTO, there will be
appropriate ground for cooperation.
Member states of the CSTO called for a peaceful settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a joint statement
issued during their most recent gathering in Moscow on December 23.
The alliance underlined the importance of completion of works on the
basic principles of the conflict's resolution.
According to the experts, including Alexander Golts, Alexei Malashenko,
Sergei Markov, Pavel Felgenhauer, the CSTO could not intervene in
the negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh problem, since it doesn't have
any right to be engaged in any process related to the conflict.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early
1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed
forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
regions.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE
Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by
the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. However,
the negotiations have been largely fruitless so far despite the
efforts of the co-chair countries for over 20 years.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
From: Baghdasarian