VARDAN OSKANYAN: WAR BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN WILL BE THE THIRD
AND MAYBE THE LAST MISTAKE OF AZERBAIJAN
YEREVAN, MARCH 29. ARMINFO. The negotiation process for peaceful
settlement of Karabakh conflict is at rather complicated stage – on
the one hand, Azerbaijan confirms its readiness to continue the
negotiation process, on the other hand, it speculates with it at
international structures and advances its positions on the
contact-line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani armies. Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanyan says today in the course of parliamentary
hearings on settlement of Karabakh conflict.
We are concerned over the behavior of the Azerbaijani party, but we
are not afraid of it as we are ready to respond to Azerbaijan’s
probable initiative of unleashing a new war, which will be its third
and maybe the last mistake, Oskanyan says. In his words, the Armenian
party has shared its concern with the Minsk Group mediators and this
issue will be discussed during their next meeting. Oskanyan says that
despite some common approaches, the sides are far in their positions
on settlement of the conflict and the mediators are unlikely to make
their positions closer in the course of their forthcoming meeting.
One should hope for the Azerbaijani party will come to the meeting in
a constructive mood, the minister says. Commenting on the stage by
stage settlement-scheme (return of the territories outside Nagorny
Karabakh to Azerbaijan with further negotiations for status of
Karabakh), he says that if Ilham Aliyev is awakened at 3 o’clock at
night, he will sign this document. This settlement-scheme can be
discussed and implemented at any time, Oskanyan says. In response to
the question on possible compromises the minister says that he cannot
calculate them all. He only notes that the Armenian side cannot yield
Karabakh to Azerbaijan, it cannot allow that Karabakh becomes an
enclave as well as it cannot endanger the security of the people
residing in Karabakh.