NAGORNO KARABAKH FOREIGN MINISTRY: “EVERY SILENT SUPPORT OF CONFLICT PARTIES MAY DESTABILIZE THE WHOLE SOUTH CAUCASUS”
15:43 03/30/2006
Foreign Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh has published a statement
concerning yesterday’s breaking up of OSCE monitoring of contact
line between armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan by the
Azerbaijani side. NKR Foreign Ministry states:
“On March 29, this year, during monitoring conducted by the OSCE
mission to the east of Seysulan village of Martakert district of NKR,
Azerbaijani armed forces broke cease-fire, shooting towards NKR armed
forces’ positions. As a result, in order to guarantee security of
the mission members, Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman Andrzej
Kasprzyk decided to stop the monitoring. Attracting attention of the
international community to repeated facts of violations by Azerbaijani
armed units of Azerbaijani-Karabakh contact line, which became regular
last time, the NKR Foreign Ministry believes it to be necessary to
state these actions are immediately caused by continuing militant
rhetoric of the Azerbaijani leadership, which are not properly
evaluated by interested states and organizations.
Attempts of mediators to make all sides of Nagorno Karabakh conflict
equally responsible for breaking up of the cease-fire, establish
preconditions for Azerbaijan’s impunity, as actual initiator of
violations. It is absolutely unacceptable. In this connection, the
Foreign Ministry believes, every silent support of conflict parties
may break achieved stability and destabilize situation in whole
South Caucasus.”