NKR PRESIDENT: POLICY PURSUED BY AZERI AUTHORITIES HAMPERS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’S EFFORTS ON KARABAGH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
July 3 2007

Policy pursued by Azeri authorities hampers international
community’s efforts on Karabagh conflict settlement, NKR President
Arkady Ghoukassian stated in Yerevan on Tuesday in his report
"Nagorno-Karabagh: Perspectives of Settlement", speaking at the
Summer school acting under the aegis of Russian-Armenian (Slavonic)
University July 1-8.

"Year by year the Azerbaijani leadership has been increasing
expenditure on the army’s technical equipment and accession of
professional mercenaries, without ceasing anti Armenian propaganda
via official mass media", he stated.

According to Ghoukassian, international practice is quite flexible
in searching for the options of the settlement of the situation
characterized by acuteness of territorial problems.

"Unfortunately, Azerbaijani authorities have not done anything to form
the state’s positive image before the NKR people", he said adding it
could result in the establishment of confidential relations.

The President noted because of official Baku’s counteraction OSCE
could not bring the talks’ format in line with its own configuration
of the conflict fixed in the basic documents of the organization’s
Budapest summit, Novosti-Armenia reports.