Expert: Azerbaijan threatens to continue provocations
14:44 15/06/2012 » Comments
`Official Baku not only steps back from its agreements but also sets
new preconditions, something that contradicts the logic of peacefully
negotiated settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,’ expert Tigran
Abrahamyan told Panorama.am, commenting on Azerbaijani Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov’s statement that Azerbaijan will agree to
introduction of mechanisms for investigating incidents at the line of
contact if `Armenian troops vacate the occupied territories.’
The expert noted that Sochi hosted a tripartite meeting between
Presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in 2011, when the sides
agreed on working out mechanisms for investigating incidents at the
line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces.
`More, agreements reached in Sochi were reconfirmed at a tripartite
presidential meeting in January 2012. However, Azerbaijan steps back
from these agreements,’ Abrahamyan stressed.
The expert also made a comment to the Azerbaijani official’s remark
that `status quo will be maintained if this mechanism is put into
action now.’
`If we put this part of Mammadyarov’s statement more clearly, it turns
out that contact line stability is not beneficial for Baku, because,
according to the Azerbaijani side, status quo is maintained in that
case, so Azerbaijan will always instigate provocations until a final
settlement is reached,’ Abrahamyan said.
Asked to comment on Mammadyarov’s statement that `if Armenia doesn’t
want its soldiers to die, it must withdraw from the Azerbaijani
lands,’ the expert said: `Official Baku again resorts to blackmail
policy. We must say that both sides sustain casualties, but how
Azerbaijan values its soldiers – this is quite a different question.
Armenian side’s task is not to fight the situation that is created as
a result of the Azerbaijani provocations but to try to prevent it.’
Source: Panorama.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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