SERZH SARGSYAN: FULL PARTICIPATION OF NKR IN THE NEGOTIATIONS IS THE IMPERATIVE OF THE TIME
18:08 15.01.2013
The joint sitting of the leadership of the legislative, executive and
judicial authorities was held at the Ministry of Health today chaired
By President Serzh Sargsyan, commander-in-chief of RA Armed Forces.
“The utmost objective of our foreign policy is the final legal
consolidation of the victory in the aggressive war unleashed by
Azerbaijan against Artsakh. The Nagorno Karabakh Republic must be
recognized by the international community, since there is no logical
explanation as to why the people, who have realized their right to
self-determination within the law and have defended it in unequal
conditions, should be part of Azerbaijan. Why should the destiny of
those people be conditioned by the illegal decision Stalin once made?”
President Sargsyan stated at the sitting.
“The obvious anti-Armenian, fascist, bellicose policy of the
Azerbaijani authorities on the issue remains a major threat to our
security. Azerbaijan openly violates the conditions of the. Soldiers
die at the line of contact, and their blood is on the Azerbaijani
authorities.
In a few days we’ll mark the 25th anniversary of the Karabakh
Movement. But it was the start of the modern phase of the movement.
the people Ïf Karabakh never put up with Stalin’s illegality, they
never considered themselves citizens of Azerbaijan, never accepted
the decision to annex Karabakh to Azerbaijan.”
The ceasefire agreement signed 19 year ago at the request of Azerbaijan
consolidated the victory of the Armenian self-defense struggle,”
President Sargsyan said, adding that “ignoring the provisions of the
ceasefire agreement, Azerbaijan continues to fire not only Artsakh,
but also the Republic of Armenia.
“The Azerbaijani authorities openly refute the proposals of the
mediators to withdraw the snipers from the line of contact and create
mechanisms to investigate the border incidents. They even refuse to
implement the confidence-building measures envisaged by the agreement
signed in Sochi.”
“We must always be ready for a new military adventurism by a regime
which propagates war. I think our neighbors understand that war will
be equally, if not more destructive to Azerbaijan. At the same time,
I don’t think the Azerbaijani authorities are concerned about the
fate of their people. They will be ready to resume military actions
if they consider they have an exceptional privilege over Armenia or
if it is necessary to diverge the attention from domestic problems.
Armenia and Azerbaijan do not want war, but everyone should be
confident that we’ll give a worthy response to to any challenge. Never
again will the people of Artsakh stand the danger of physical
annihilation. The Republic of Armenia is a guarantor of this.
The fate of Artsakh will be decided by its people. It is consolidated
by international law and a number of international documents.
Therefore, the full participation of the NKR authorities is an
imperative of the time,” the President said.
“Speaking about Azerbaijan we must keep in mind that there is a state
in the region, which unequivocally supports the anti-Armenian policy
of Azerbaijan. The Turkish-Azerbaijani unity created under the slogan
“One nation, two states” has been trying to grab unilateral concessions
from Armenia through the deepening of blockade and dividing lines and
exclusion of cooperation in the course of the past twenty years. They
have never succeeded and will never succeed ” President Sargsyan
declared.
“As a peace-loving, progressive and farsighted nation, we understand
the importance of the creation of an atmosphere of mutual trust for
the peaceful co-existence with neighbors and move forward. With this
in mind we initiated the normalization of relations with Turkey,”
the President stated.
“The recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide is the
duty of Turkey before the victims of the Genocide, the survivors and
their descendants, all mankind and first of all, its own people,” the
President said. “I think that without Turkey’s sincere penitence and
elimination of the consequences of the Genocide, the secure existence
of Armenia in the region will continue to be endangered,” he added.