ASHOT GULYAN: THE ARMY OF ARTSAKH IS READY TO PROTECT THE STATE BORDER
ARMINFO
Tuesday, June 17, 10:51
Artsakh has never endured and will not endure any infringement on its
territory and its army is as prepared as never before to protect the
country’s state borders, Speaker of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Parliament Ashot
Gulyan said at the 9th meeting of the inter-parliamentary commission
on cooperation between the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabkh parliaments
in Stepanakert on Monday.
He said that Azerbaijan keeps rejecting the mediators’ confidence
building initiatives and thereby endangers stability on its contact
line with Nagorno-Karabakh. “We expect the world community to force
Azerbaijan to stop this dangerous policy as it is a threat for the
whole region,” Gulyan said.
In his turn, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Galust Sahakyan said
that the Armenian Parliament gives top priority to the Nagorno-Karabkh
problem. “Azerbaijan’s ‘all or war’ policy is an obstacle to peace
in the region. The Azeris have made Armenophobia as their national
policy. They keep destroying everything
Armenian and spreading lies about Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh,”
Sahakyan said.
He believes that Nagorno-Karabakh must become a full party to the
Nagornk-Karabakh peace process and that any agreement reached during
the talks must be coordinated with the people of Artsakh. “We realize
the importance of the OSCE Minsk Group as an effective format for
searching for solutions to this problem. Any attempt to solve it by
means of war may have unpredictable consequences for the conflicting
parties and the whole region,” Sahakyan said.