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ARMENIAN DIPLOMATS UPSET ALIYEV IN MUNICH
12:05, 9 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. During the Munich Security Annual
conference the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev had a speech
during the Panel Discussion "Beyond Ukraine- Unresolved conflicts in
Europe." The President of Azerbaijan in essence repeated the boring
statements which are being made over the last two decades.
As reports "Armenpress", during this section of the conference, where
a number of high-ranking officials were present, not everything went
smoothly for Ilham Aliyev. After the latter's speech a question was
addressed by a member of the Armenian delegation Andranik Hovhannisyan
that "it is well-known that the OSCE Minsk Co-Chairs have on numerous
occasions appealed to the both countries to accept the Basic Principles
of the Madrid document, i.e. non-use of force or threat of force, right
to self-determination and territorial integrity. The Armenian side has
several times noted that it is accepting those proposals. Azerbaijan
has never clearly stated about this. Can you here unequivocally state
that you are accepting those principles as a basis for the conflict
settlement."
Putting the question flatly perplexed Ilham Aliyev and he spoke
about his vision of the conflict settlement. Then he made a distorted
presentation of the right to self-determination completely ignoring
the principle of non-use of force and threat of force, and eventually
did not clarify whether he is unequivocally accepting those principles
or not.
Ilham Aliyev underlined that the conflicts in the former USSR space
should have the same solutions, adding that Russia has occupied
the Crimea.
The head of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tigran Lazarian using the opportunity of asking a question, first
of all reminded about the addressed call of the Minsk Group, then
said that Azerbaijan is escalating the situation to undermine the
negotiation process. "Mr. Aliyev, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, about whom
you mentioned, a few days ago made a statement where they "called on
Azerbaijan to observe its commitments to the peaceful settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict." This is not accidental, that their
appeal is addressed to you, because it is the Azerbaijani side which
is ignoring those appeals and is violating the ceasefire regime on
Armenia-Azerbaijan border, as wlel as on the Line of Contact between
Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. Since January the Azerbaijani side
has violated the ceasefire regime more than 3.000 sides, as a result
of which there were several losses on all sides. Just a few days ago
65 and 85 years-old Armenians were killed by your snipers. Don't you
think that by your actions you are further escalating the situation
and thus are making the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict in the near future less likely.
I would like to recall the Moderator of this session of the conference,
Slovenia's President, Mr. Pahor's question asked to you and the other
panelists, where he asked what the first step on the way to progress in
the peaceful settlement of the conflicts. You wandered around, but did
not speak about the most important. Settlement of a conflict commences
when duns are stopping to fire. So my appeal to you is - Stop firing!"
Aliyev got more upset by the statement of the Armenian diplomat,
repeated his accusations against the international community, the
Armenian Diaspora, Armenia, without responding to the question and
the appeal.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793271/armenian-diplomats-upset-aliyev-in-munich.html
12:05, 9 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. During the Munich Security Annual
conference the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev had a speech
during the Panel Discussion "Beyond Ukraine- Unresolved conflicts in
Europe." The President of Azerbaijan in essence repeated the boring
statements which are being made over the last two decades.
As reports "Armenpress", during this section of the conference, where
a number of high-ranking officials were present, not everything went
smoothly for Ilham Aliyev. After the latter's speech a question was
addressed by a member of the Armenian delegation Andranik Hovhannisyan
that "it is well-known that the OSCE Minsk Co-Chairs have on numerous
occasions appealed to the both countries to accept the Basic Principles
of the Madrid document, i.e. non-use of force or threat of force, right
to self-determination and territorial integrity. The Armenian side has
several times noted that it is accepting those proposals. Azerbaijan
has never clearly stated about this. Can you here unequivocally state
that you are accepting those principles as a basis for the conflict
settlement."
Putting the question flatly perplexed Ilham Aliyev and he spoke
about his vision of the conflict settlement. Then he made a distorted
presentation of the right to self-determination completely ignoring
the principle of non-use of force and threat of force, and eventually
did not clarify whether he is unequivocally accepting those principles
or not.
Ilham Aliyev underlined that the conflicts in the former USSR space
should have the same solutions, adding that Russia has occupied
the Crimea.
The head of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tigran Lazarian using the opportunity of asking a question, first
of all reminded about the addressed call of the Minsk Group, then
said that Azerbaijan is escalating the situation to undermine the
negotiation process. "Mr. Aliyev, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, about whom
you mentioned, a few days ago made a statement where they "called on
Azerbaijan to observe its commitments to the peaceful settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict." This is not accidental, that their
appeal is addressed to you, because it is the Azerbaijani side which
is ignoring those appeals and is violating the ceasefire regime on
Armenia-Azerbaijan border, as wlel as on the Line of Contact between
Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. Since January the Azerbaijani side
has violated the ceasefire regime more than 3.000 sides, as a result
of which there were several losses on all sides. Just a few days ago
65 and 85 years-old Armenians were killed by your snipers. Don't you
think that by your actions you are further escalating the situation
and thus are making the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict in the near future less likely.
I would like to recall the Moderator of this session of the conference,
Slovenia's President, Mr. Pahor's question asked to you and the other
panelists, where he asked what the first step on the way to progress in
the peaceful settlement of the conflicts. You wandered around, but did
not speak about the most important. Settlement of a conflict commences
when duns are stopping to fire. So my appeal to you is - Stop firing!"
Aliyev got more upset by the statement of the Armenian diplomat,
repeated his accusations against the international community, the
Armenian Diaspora, Armenia, without responding to the question and
the appeal.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793271/armenian-diplomats-upset-aliyev-in-munich.html