EQUAL MINSK GROUP ATTITUDE TO CONFLICT PARTIES IS WRONG – BAKU
Russia & CIS Presidential Bulletin
November 28, 2007
The equal attitude of the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group to
Azerbaijan and Armenia for the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement is wrong,
Novruz Mamedov, head of the international affairs department at the
Azeri presidential administration told the Lider TV channel.
Azerbaijan is a party to the conflict, its territories are occupied,
and it has about one million refugees. Armenia is the other party;
it is the occupant, and it is the reason behind Azeri refugees.
In this case, a single position to both parties to the conflict is
unfair, Mamedov said.
They [Armenia] occupied the territories in a war and now they want
peaceful settlement. Such statements on behalf of the Armenian side
are based on the position of the international community, the world’s
leading powers and international organizations. Regretfully, today
international organizations and the states influencing world order
cannot show a certain and just position, which is explained in terms
of double standards. They, however, should understand that sooner
or later the Azeri territories will be liberated from Armenia’s
occupation, Mamedov said.
Mamedov also said that Baku worries about the deployment of Russian
troops withdrawn from Georgia in Armenia. Such actions of one of the
co- chairmen of the Minsk Group, which can play a decisive role in
settlement, do not promote the resolution of the conflict, he said.