ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS AZERBAIJAN’S FAULT: ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER OF NKR
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Tuesday, February 7, 11:58
“We do not agree with some political experts saying that the
negotiations have faced a deadlock and it is necessary to change the
format of the OSCE Minsk Group etc.
The Minsk Group is fulfilling its mission, while all the problems in
the negotiation process are due to Azerbaijan’s fault. That country
has never tried to search for compromises and has always used
the negotiation process for its anti-Armenian propaganda,” Vasily
Atajanyan, Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,
said in an interview with Vestnik TV program of the Russian Service
of the NKR Public Television.
According to ArmInfo’s correspondent to Stepanakert, V. Atajanyan
said that in 2011 the foreign political course of the NKR intensified
mostly due to the NKR president’s visits to Europe and USA where he
introduced the essence of the Karabakh conflict and the peace process
to parliamentarians and other officials. The acting minister stressed
the role of the permanent representations and diplomatic missions of
NKR at foreign organization in meeting the present-day challenges.
Asked about the necessity of confidence building measures for the
conflicting parties, Atajanyan said that Azerbaijan has always ignored
these measures, unlike Armenia and Artsakh that have been raising that
issue from the very beginning of the negotiation process. For instance,
he said, Baku categorically rejected the suggestion to remove snipers
from the line of contact of the NKR and Azerbaijan armed forces as
well as request to increase financing of the OSCE CIO PR Office to
inquiry into the incidents on the line of the contact.
As for the so-called “inter-community” dialogue, Vasily Atajanyan
said, it threatens the entire negotiation process. “One can see here
Turkey’s scenario towards the Cyprian problem. And Azerbaijan tries to
turn the negotiations into an inter-community settlement process. We
will never agree with such format,” he said. The status of the NKR
cannot be lower than it actually is, he said, and the resolution
should start with determination of NKR’s status.