ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: PEOPLE OF KARABAKH WANT NOTHING FROM AZERBAIJAN, EXCEPT A WILLINGNESS TO LIVE AND LET LIVE

ArmInfo
2007-06-26 21:57:00

"In the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, we have worked hard to produce
a negotiating document that is indeed based on compromise, and has
sufficient positive elements to justify our efforts to move forward
to resolve the remaining difficult differences," Armenian Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian said in his speech at the summit of the
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC).

The press-service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry told ArmInfo that
V.Oskanian noted that Armenia is cognizant of the irreplaceable role
of the negotiating process, as difficult as that is, to lasting
resolutions. "In fact, the process itself is a signal to our
populations and other stakeholders that we understand compromise
and the concessions that compromise requires. Therefore, at this
stage, to speak in the language of attack and absolute solutions is
neither realistic nor helpful. Nor is it useful to mistake cause with
consequence. The people of Nagorno Karabakh were victims who won the
military battle, successfully defending themselves in Karabakh against
a government that attacked people it considered its own citizens. Not
all victors are aggressors. Sometimes the underdog wins because he
is defending his family, his home, his land. The people of Karabakh
defended themselves, against great odds, and won. Today, they want
nothing from Azerbaijan, except a willingness to live and let live,"
V.Oskanian said.