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TALKING TO ARMENIA AND NAGORNO-KARABAKH FROM POSITION OF FORCE WILL NOT YIELD LASTING SOLUTION, PRESIDENT SAYS
YEREVAN, March 18. / ARKA /. Addressing an international media forum in
the Armenian capital entitled 'At the Foot of Mount Ararat,' dedicated
to the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, President Serzh Sargsyan
said it is clear that in today's world the guarantee of stability
and normal development is peaceful co-existence and tolerance.
'This is the very principle guiding us through the Nagorno-Karabakh
peace process, thereby not allowing Azerbaijan to ruin peace
negotiations with its bellicose statements and provocative actions. In
contrast to Azerbaijani authorities, whose provocative actions endanger
the stability of not only their state but also of the region, Armenia
is fully aware of the grave consequences of such adventurism.
Therefore, by containing Azerbaijan's military provocations, we try
to avoid a new spark of the conflict, which will seriously deteriorate
the already unstable situation in our entire region,' he said.
'We do not incite hostility and hatred among our people, which
has been an inseparable component of the policy carried out by the
Azerbaijani authorities for years. In contrast to the Azerbaijani
President who declared that the Armenian people are the number one
enemies of Azerbaijanis, I would like to highlight once again that
the Armenians do not have enemy nations.
It was Azerbaijan's decades-long anti-Armenian policy and the
determination to restore historical justice that ultimately drove
the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to exercise their inviolable right to
self-determination - to build their own homeland on their own land.
Regardless of Azerbaijan's threats and provocations, the wheel of
history is impossible to roll back: the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is
already a well-established reality and it is not feasible to break
the freedom-loving spirit of its people. To ascertain it, I am calling
upon you to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to get acquainted with the Artsakh
state-building on the ground and represent the objective reality to
your public.
The Armenian position on the settlement of the conflict remains
the same: it must be settled within the framework of the OSCE Minsk
Group, through peaceful negotiations on the basis of the three famous
principles of the Helsinki Final Act put forth by the Co-Chairs.
Azerbaijan's efforts to alter the format provided by the Minsk
Group, talk to the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from
a position of force, provocations and blackmail will not yield a
lasting solution. This is an unequivocal truth.
On January 27, 2015 the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group issued a
statement in Krakow on Azerbaijan's destructive policy, in which they
called upon Azerbaijan to live up to its commitments to the peaceful
resolution of the conflict. I strongly believe that continued sending
of targeted messages calling to exercise restraint will incite certain
degree of vigilance with their true addressee.'-0-
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From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, March 18. / ARKA /. Addressing an international media forum in
the Armenian capital entitled 'At the Foot of Mount Ararat,' dedicated
to the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, President Serzh Sargsyan
said it is clear that in today's world the guarantee of stability
and normal development is peaceful co-existence and tolerance.
'This is the very principle guiding us through the Nagorno-Karabakh
peace process, thereby not allowing Azerbaijan to ruin peace
negotiations with its bellicose statements and provocative actions. In
contrast to Azerbaijani authorities, whose provocative actions endanger
the stability of not only their state but also of the region, Armenia
is fully aware of the grave consequences of such adventurism.
Therefore, by containing Azerbaijan's military provocations, we try
to avoid a new spark of the conflict, which will seriously deteriorate
the already unstable situation in our entire region,' he said.
'We do not incite hostility and hatred among our people, which
has been an inseparable component of the policy carried out by the
Azerbaijani authorities for years. In contrast to the Azerbaijani
President who declared that the Armenian people are the number one
enemies of Azerbaijanis, I would like to highlight once again that
the Armenians do not have enemy nations.
It was Azerbaijan's decades-long anti-Armenian policy and the
determination to restore historical justice that ultimately drove
the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to exercise their inviolable right to
self-determination - to build their own homeland on their own land.
Regardless of Azerbaijan's threats and provocations, the wheel of
history is impossible to roll back: the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is
already a well-established reality and it is not feasible to break
the freedom-loving spirit of its people. To ascertain it, I am calling
upon you to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to get acquainted with the Artsakh
state-building on the ground and represent the objective reality to
your public.
The Armenian position on the settlement of the conflict remains
the same: it must be settled within the framework of the OSCE Minsk
Group, through peaceful negotiations on the basis of the three famous
principles of the Helsinki Final Act put forth by the Co-Chairs.
Azerbaijan's efforts to alter the format provided by the Minsk
Group, talk to the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from
a position of force, provocations and blackmail will not yield a
lasting solution. This is an unequivocal truth.
On January 27, 2015 the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group issued a
statement in Krakow on Azerbaijan's destructive policy, in which they
called upon Azerbaijan to live up to its commitments to the peaceful
resolution of the conflict. I strongly believe that continued sending
of targeted messages calling to exercise restraint will incite certain
degree of vigilance with their true addressee.'-0-
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/talking_to_armenia_and_nagorno_karabakh_from_posit ion_of_force_will_not_yield_lasting_solution_presi/#sthash.GBNggVOq.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian