Sharmazanov: “Aliev’s decline to be concluded by mediators”

Politics 17:30 26/03/2010

Sharmazanov: “Aliev’s decline to be concluded by mediators”

Republican press speaker Edward Sharmazanov talked with the reporters about the recent political development at a news conference.

Regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Sharmazanov stated that Foreign Minister’s voicing of Shahumyan occupied region has been advancement, he underscored that the Republican is frank to his dispositions.

“Karabakh should have a status, which isn’t lower than its today’s status,” E. Sharmazanov said. He added until Azerbaijan recognizes NKR independence other variants can’t be discussed.

The Deputy noted that the conflict should be settled through peaceful negotiations, but it doesn’t mean we’re afraid of war. E. Sharmazanov reminded about Serzh Sargsyan’s proposal to sign a deal on rejecting force usage, which in fact was declined by Azerbaijan’s Aliev.

This decline, Sharmazanov said, should be considered by the mediators who should conclude that Azerbaijan isn’t ready to act from constructive dispositions.

“Karabakh isn’t a matter of bargain. It can never be in Azerbaijan’s structure. Armenia is ready to bilateral compromises. The most important thing is that NKR people’s opinion, as well as its authorities’ is of great significance. There will be no settlement which NKR people dislike,” Sharmazanov said.

The Nagorno-Karabakh (armed) conflict broke out back in 1991, when, subsequent to the demand for self-determination of the Nagorno-Karabakh people, Azerbaijani authorities attempted to resolve the issue through ethnic cleansings, carried out by Soviet security forces (KGB special units) under the pretext of the implementation of the passport regime and by launching of large-scale military operations, which left thousands dead and caused considerable material damage. A cease-fire agreement was established in 1994. Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are being conducted under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen (Russia, USA, France) and on the basis of their Madrid proposals, presented in November, 2007.

Azerbaijan has not yet implemented the 4 resolutions of the UN Security Council adopted in 1993, by continuing to provoke arms race in the region and openly violating on of the basic principles of the international law non-use of force or threat of force.

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