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LARISA ALAVERDYAN: AZERI ATTACK WAS THE RESULT OF JAMES WARLICK'S STATEMENTS
by Nana Martirosyan
Wednesday, July 16, 15:28
The Azeri attack on Karvachar and the growing tension on the contact
line between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan are the result of the
statements by OSCE Minsk Group US co-chair James Warlick that the
current status quo in Nagorno- Karabakh cannot be preserved, former
Human Rights Defender of Armenia Larisa Alaverdyan told journalists
on Wednesday.
"The OSCE Minsk Group has proved its inability to force the parties
into peace. But instead of trying to do something or at least
to suggest some alternatives, it keeps saying that things can no
longer stay as they are and this is encouraging the bold-faced Azeri
authorities. The co-chairs are not doing their daily work. The Azeris
keep giving them pretexts for criticizing them but all they are doing
is just conducting regular monitorings. We won in the battlefield but
now we are losing in the diplomatic field, which we must not allow,"
Alaverdyan said.
On the other hand, she believes that the meetings with Azeri President
Ilham Aliyev must be continued as any contacts are good for the
parties. "We must not reject an offer by a more or less neutral party
as once we already accepted a similar offer by Russia, a country that
keeps openly selling arms to Azerbaijan," Alaverdyan said.
Last week Nagorno-Karabakh's troops prevented an Azeri raid on
Karvachar. Some of the raiders were killed, two - Gulin Shahbaz
Jalaloglu and Dilhan Gardashhan - were detained and are now facing
criminal charges.
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by Nana Martirosyan
Wednesday, July 16, 15:28
The Azeri attack on Karvachar and the growing tension on the contact
line between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan are the result of the
statements by OSCE Minsk Group US co-chair James Warlick that the
current status quo in Nagorno- Karabakh cannot be preserved, former
Human Rights Defender of Armenia Larisa Alaverdyan told journalists
on Wednesday.
"The OSCE Minsk Group has proved its inability to force the parties
into peace. But instead of trying to do something or at least
to suggest some alternatives, it keeps saying that things can no
longer stay as they are and this is encouraging the bold-faced Azeri
authorities. The co-chairs are not doing their daily work. The Azeris
keep giving them pretexts for criticizing them but all they are doing
is just conducting regular monitorings. We won in the battlefield but
now we are losing in the diplomatic field, which we must not allow,"
Alaverdyan said.
On the other hand, she believes that the meetings with Azeri President
Ilham Aliyev must be continued as any contacts are good for the
parties. "We must not reject an offer by a more or less neutral party
as once we already accepted a similar offer by Russia, a country that
keeps openly selling arms to Azerbaijan," Alaverdyan said.
Last week Nagorno-Karabakh's troops prevented an Azeri raid on
Karvachar. Some of the raiders were killed, two - Gulin Shahbaz
Jalaloglu and Dilhan Gardashhan - were detained and are now facing
criminal charges.
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