MOST IMPORTANT PRECONDITION FOR KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
HISTORIC RECONCILIATION BETWEEN PEOPLES OF REGION
Arka News Agency, Armenia
July 31, 2006
YEREVAN, July 31. /ARKA/. The most important precondition for
establishment of peace and settlement of the Karabakh conflict
is a historic reconciliation between the peoples of the region,
NKR President Arkady Ghukasyan reported at the meeting with human
rights advocates and journalists from the NKR, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Georgia and a number of European countries.
The NKR president’s press service reported that Ghukasyan pointed out
that "without such reconciliation, it will be difficult to implement
any agreement on the conflict settlement, eliminate the war aftermaths
and open a way for regional development" The NKR president pointed
out the fact of the presence of an Azerbaijani delegation in the NKR,
which, according to him, is a positive example of a constructive
dialogue between representatives of the two communities, divided by
the war.
In his turn, Arzu Abdullaeva, co-chair of the Helsinki Civil Assembly
(HCA) and coordinator of the Azerbaijani national committee of
this organization pointed out that HCA members and the organization
"Public Council for Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Settlement" created
not long ago in Baku, stand for immediate participation of the NKR
in the negotiations for a peaceful settlement to the conflict and
establishment of friendly relations between the two communities.
Abdullaeva also said that there is a warm atmosphere of mutual
understanding and cooperation between the existing human rights NGOs
of Armenia, Karabakh and Azerbaijan. "We would like such an atmosphere
to prevail during contacts at an official level," she said. R.O. -0–