Azerbaijan’s attempts to regain Karabakh “pointless” – Armenian minister

Mediamax news agency
29 Mar 05

YEREVAN

Two-day parliamentary hearings on the settlement of the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict started at the Armenian National Assembly today.

Speaking at the hearings, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan
stated that the Karabakh settlement process is experiencing a
“complicated stage” today, our Mediamax parliamentary correspondent
reports.

The Armenian foreign minister said that “all the attempts of
Azerbaijan to turn back time are doomed to failure”. Vardan Oskanyan
noted that at present, there are elements of the package, as well as
stage-by-stage settlements of the conflict at the “negotiating table”.

The Armenian foreign minister acknowledged that Azerbaijan is trying
to transfer the settlement process from the OSCE Minsk Group to other
international organizations which give preference to the principle of
the territorial integrity of states. At the same time, Vardan Oskanyan
noted that the world has seen precedents when the principle of a
nation’s self-determination takes priority and cited East Timor, Sudan
and Kosovo as examples.

Vardan Oskanyan stressed that the Karabakh problem has no military
solution and described Baku’s demands to return Nagornyy Karabakh to
Azerbaijan as “pointless”. Oskanyan said that the Azerbaijani side is
deliberately dodging the issue of Nagornyy Karabakh’s status, putting
forward the problem of the adjacent territories.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress