Azat Artsakh, NKR
Sept 15 2006
FOREIGN MINISTER GEORGY PETROSYAN COMMENTS ON FIRES
Considering the outcome, namely the intention to send an OSCE mission
assisted by UN experts to study the short-term and long-term impact
of fires on the environment, the resolution is acceptable for NKR.
Moreover, it should be emphasized that this is the logical
continuation of the initiative of the Nagorno-Karabakh government.
The NKR government is worried by fires, which inflicted considerable
damage on the agriculture and threatened to grow into an ecological
disaster. In this connection, on June 15 the NKR foreign ministry
addressed a note to the office of the Personal Representative of the
OSCE CiO calling to conduct a crisis monitoring at the border with
Azerbaijan. The OSCE mission conducted a series of monitoring two
weeks late, and the findings underlay the report of the Personal
Representative of the OSCE CiO, which rebutted the accusations of the
Azerbaijani side on arson in the settlements of the security area of
NKR. Hence, the NKR government was the first to invite the OSCE to
send a monitoring mission to the region, which was ignored in the
statement of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in the meeting of the
General Assembly. Generally, if the report of the OSCE senior officer
needs additional confirmation, we are ready to accept a new OSCE
mission to dispel the Azerbaijani myths once again. The reporting of
the question to the UN and the wording in the OSCE resolution is
unacceptable. The attempts to report the questions that are attended
to by the OSCE to the UN do not favor progress in the settlement, but
impede the prospect of settlement of the Karabakh conflict. It should
be noted that the resolution, namely its content is the result of
agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which is a rare thing,
considering the absence of means of confidence between the parties
over the recent years and is, therefore, commendable. We think that
similar projects should be discussed by all the three parties of the
conflict to prevent problems that may occur in applying decisions,
especially that these decisions basically refer to the territories
controlled by NKR. The stance of NKR is the same: we are likely to
continue cooperation with the international organizations and will
assist the OSCE task force consisting of experts of only neutral
countries. September 11, 2006, NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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15-09-2006