Nagornyy Karabakh Deputy Foreign Minister dismisses PACE resolution on Karabakh as “entirely negative”

Mediamax news agency
10 Feb 05

Yerevan, 10 February: The authorities of Nagornyy Karabakh think that
the PACE [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] resolution
adopted after David Atkinson’s [ PACE rapporteur on Nagornyy Karabakh]
report is “entirely negative”.

This was announced by Nagornyy Karabakh Deputy Foreign Minister Masis
Mailyan in reply to questions from MPs of the National Assembly of
the republic during the “parliamentary hour” at a plenary session of
parliament, Mediamax news agency reported.

Mailyan said that the emergence of the resolution became possible
because Karabakh deputies had not been invited to the PACE hearing
on the Nagornyy Karabakh problem in January.

Speaking about the Karabakh settlement process, Masis Mailyan stressed
that the current format of negotiations in which only Armenia and
Azerbaijan are taking part, does not fully reflect the real situation.

The NKR deputy foreign minister reconfirmed Stepanakert’s [Xankandi]
position, according to which it is impossible to resolve the problem
without the participation of Nagornyy Karabakh in the negotiations
and without taking into account the opinion of its people.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress