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“There is no alternative to the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” Armenian FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan stated at the 26th Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava.

“The inalienable right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination represents a fundamental principle and foundation for the peaceful resolution. The recognition of this principle not to be limited in the scope of determination for the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh must be clearly and unequivocally accepted,” Mnatsakanyan added, according to the foreign ministry press service.

In the minister’s words, the persistent hostile policies and actions of Azerbaijan aimed at undermining and threatening the existential physical security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the latest attempted aggression by Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016, emphasize the illegitimacy and impossibility of claiming jurisdiction by Azerbaijan over the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

“The security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh will not be compromised. Under no circumstances the people of Nagorno-Karabakh should be left without secure lines of defense. There will be no condition assuming a risk to existential physical security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh as it was the case in 1991-1994 and in 2016,” said Mnatsakanyan, adding any peaceful settlement should be inclusive by directly engaging all the parties to the conflict.