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AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT SAYS DOUBLE STANDARDS POLICY BEHIND UNRESOLVED KARABAKH CONFLICT
ITAR-TASS, Russia
January 10, 2015 Saturday 10
BAKU January 10.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has said in 2014 there was no
progress in settlement of the Karabakh conflict
He spoke on Saturday at an expanded cabinet meeting focusing on
results of the country's social and economic growth in the past year.
"Last year there was no progress in the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict," Aliyev said.
He blamed Armenia for not "wanting peace" and reproached international
mediators that their words about inadmissibility of the current status
quo in the conflict remain "just words, lacking serious politics
behind them."
Aliyev recalled four resolutions on the Karabakh conflict adopted by
the UN Security Council that had remained unimplemented over the past
20 years.
Also, the Azeri president said documents like these tackling other
international problems often come into force without delay.
"It is injustice and a policy of double standards," he said. "There
seem to be such forces which are interested in the conflict to be
frozen or half-frozen so that it could be used as a tool to pressure
Azerbaijan."
In 2015 Azerbaijan will beef up its military potential, Aliyev said.
The mountainous area of Nagorno-Karabakh remains a so-called 'frozen
conflict' on the post-Soviet space as it is the subject of a dispute
between Azerbaijan where the region is located and its ethnic Armenian
population.
In 1988 a war broke out there between Azerbaijani troops and Armenian
residents, which resulted in the region's de facto independence. In
1994 a ceasefire was reached but the relations between the two states
are still strained.
Russia, France and the U.S. co-chair the Minsk Group of the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which attempts
to broker an end to hostilities and the conflict. --0-mil/
ITAR-TASS, Russia
January 10, 2015 Saturday 10
BAKU January 10.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has said in 2014 there was no
progress in settlement of the Karabakh conflict
He spoke on Saturday at an expanded cabinet meeting focusing on
results of the country's social and economic growth in the past year.
"Last year there was no progress in the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict," Aliyev said.
He blamed Armenia for not "wanting peace" and reproached international
mediators that their words about inadmissibility of the current status
quo in the conflict remain "just words, lacking serious politics
behind them."
Aliyev recalled four resolutions on the Karabakh conflict adopted by
the UN Security Council that had remained unimplemented over the past
20 years.
Also, the Azeri president said documents like these tackling other
international problems often come into force without delay.
"It is injustice and a policy of double standards," he said. "There
seem to be such forces which are interested in the conflict to be
frozen or half-frozen so that it could be used as a tool to pressure
Azerbaijan."
In 2015 Azerbaijan will beef up its military potential, Aliyev said.
The mountainous area of Nagorno-Karabakh remains a so-called 'frozen
conflict' on the post-Soviet space as it is the subject of a dispute
between Azerbaijan where the region is located and its ethnic Armenian
population.
In 1988 a war broke out there between Azerbaijani troops and Armenian
residents, which resulted in the region's de facto independence. In
1994 a ceasefire was reached but the relations between the two states
are still strained.
Russia, France and the U.S. co-chair the Minsk Group of the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which attempts
to broker an end to hostilities and the conflict. --0-mil/