BAKU: Ruling Party: Hollande may be active in resolving NK conflict

Trend, Azerbaijan
May 8 2012

Azerbaijani ruling party: Hollande may be active in resolving
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 8 / Trend M.Aliyev /

Francois Hollande may be active in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, New Azerbaijan Party official, MP Mubariz Gurbanli told
Trend on Tuesday.

On May 6 the candidate of the Socialist Party, Francois Hollande, won
the presidential election in France.

“I hope that after anti-Turkic actions and statements by Sarkozy,
which didn’t yield any result, Hollande will have a clear opinion on
the matter,” he added.

The MP also noted that the solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
depends not on the co-chairs and the co-chairing countries, but on the
joint activity of the co-chairs. “If the three countries at the same
time put pressure on Armenia, you can get the result,” he said.

Gurbanli said that in the first period after coming to power, the
Socialists’ focus will be on the economic issues. “Hollande will try
to fulfill given promises and will direct more power to solve economic
problems,” he said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France and the U.S. – are
currently holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.