ADVISER TO NKR FM MAKES REPORT AT PANEL DISCUSSIONS IN MOSCOW
Panorama.am
23/03/2012
On March 21, an international scientific-practical round table
entitled “The Turkish Factor in the Middle East and in the Post-Soviet
Space” took place in Moscow, at the Russian Institute of Strategic
Studies (RISS). The event was aimed at the scientific and practical
comprehension of the policy of today’s Turkey in the Greater Caucasus
region and in the territory of the former Soviet Union in the context
of Russia’s national security, NKR MFA Press Service.
The following topics were discussed at the round table: issues of
international security in a regional context: Turkey and the Greater
Middle East; the domestic factors of instability in the Turkish state;
the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh: Turkey’s position; the prospects
of integration projects in the Caucasus with the participation of the
Russian Federation, Turkey, and other countries in the region; the
religious and public-political influence of Turkey in the post-Soviet
space and in the Turkic-populated regions of Russia.
Over 60 experts and journalists participated in the round-table
discussions; 13 of them made reports and many attendants participated
in the discussions.
Leading Russian research institutes and analytic centers were presented
at the forum. On behalf of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Adviser
to the NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs, Candidate of History Ruben
Zargarian made a report – Nagorno Karabakh and Russia in Integration
Projects and Turkey’s Position on the Karabakh Conflict, which was
actively supported by the round table participants and hosts. In
his report, Ruben Zargarian gave an analysis of the prospects of
participation of the NKR and Russia in the integration projects within
the Eastern Mediterranean Neo-Byzantine Civilization.
It was stressed that the successful formation of the Karabakh
Government was one of the systemic factors of stability and development
in the region.
Another topic of Ruben Zargarian’s report was devoted to the
confrontational policy of official Turkey towards the NKR and Armenia.
The speaker noted that it would be more profitable for Turkey to
replace its anti-Karabakh and anti-Armenian stance with the policy
of cooperation with the NKR and Armenia. Noting that some Turkish
political analysts stated that Turkey realized the irreversibility of
the NKR independence, Mr. Zargarian emphasized that as a confidence
measure and goodwill gesture, Turkey could fully recognize the
independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and establish diplomatic
relations with it, which would contribute to progress in the conflict
settlement issue.
The third topic of Ruben Zargarian’s report concerned the basic issues
of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict settlement, the destructive
and aggressive policy of Azerbaijan, and the international legal
position of the NKR. The speaker noted that Azerbaijan’s territorial
claims for seven reintegrated regions of the NKR should be regarded
as unacceptable, inappropriate, and hampering the achievement of a
peace agreement between the NKR and Azerbaijan. According to him,
the lesson of the unresolved Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, the
increasing threats of the Baku administration to resume the aggression,
and the systematic Azerbaijani military provocations on the border
is that negotiations are not enough to ensure peace and settlement,
and a responsible attitude to international law is needed.
“The Baku administration pointedly ignores international law by taking
illegal attempts to question the sovereignty and territorial integrity
of the NKR”, said the Adviser to the NKR Foreign Minister, noting that
a civilized and stable settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict
must be based on the following five principles: determination of the
NKR status is the exclusive right of the people of Nagorno Karabakh;
final recognition of the NKR state independence by the international
community; mutual recognition of the independence of the NKR and
the Azerbaijani Republic; restoration of the territorial integrity
of Nagorno Karabakh; peaceful resolution of disputes and non-use of
force or threat of force.
The report emphasized the need for the final recognition of the NKR
independence as a factor of establishing peace and stability not
only in the Caucasus region, but also in the region of the Eastern
Mediterranean Neo-Byzantine Civilization.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
