RA FM: DOCUMENT ON NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT, CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON NEGOTIATING TABLE, DIFFERS FROM ALL PREVIOUS ONES
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2008-03-18 11:28:00
ArmInfo. The document on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement,
currently available on the negotiating table, differs from all the
previous ones, RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan told "Kentron"
TV channel yesterday.
He said that the beauty of this document is that it succeeds to
combine the principle of territorial integrity with the peoples’
right for self-determination. "The key reason for consideration of
Azerbaijan-initiated Resolution on Nagorno Karabakh undeliberate by
cochairmen is that it touched upon the territorial integrity and it
contained no issue on the people’s right for self-determination", RA
FM said. As for the possible meeting of RA newly elected president,
incumbent PM of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan with Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev within the frames of NATO summit in Bucharest, S. Sargsyan has
already agreed to meet, while Azerbaijan gives hints for consent. The
situation is yet unclear. The minister recalled that the first
meeting should be fact- finding. "However, there is one issue more –
UN Resolution. I think that the newly elected president should ask
Aliyev a direct question in Bucharest – whether he will be actually
guided by UN Resolution or it persuaded other aims and he is ready to
continue the negotiations around the document, currently available on
the negotiating table, as these two documents are beyond comparison",
V. Oskanyan said and added that, in the first case, continuation of
negotiations would be a waste of time." However, if Azerbaijan is
ready to continue the negotiations around the available document,
Armenia is also ready and sure that the document contains true
principles and may lead to settlement", RA FM said and added that if
Azerbaijan insists on continuation of negotiations, being guided by
UN Resolution, the negotiating process will simply fail: "I hope that
Azerbaijan will correctly assess the situation and will understand
that it is impossible to solve the problem by resolutions, passed in
other organizations, but on the basis of the document available on
the negotiating table".