ARMENIAN FM: ANY SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT MUST BE BASED ON NAGORNY KARABAKH PEOPLE’S FULL RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
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2008-03-31 15:07:00
ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani party must not doubt that any settlement of
Karabakh conflict must be based on full right of Karabakh people to
self-determination, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said
at a press conference, Monday.
Commenting at the request of ArmInfo on Azerbaijan’s refusal from
a meeting in Bucharest, Vardan Oskanyan said: ‘it is very bad
that Azerbaijan does not want the meeting to take place’. ‘But the
Azerbaijani party distorts this fact. I state that Armenia did not ask
for a meeting. It was OSCE MG co- chairs’ proposal. We were asked if
the Armenian party will participate in a meeting in Bucharest if there
is such. We answered positively. We said that if Azerbaijan agrees,
we also agree to hold the meeting’, the minister said.
He stressed that Azerbaijan launched a dirty game aiming to break up
the Minsk Group in future in order to refuse from the document at the
negotiating table that is a result of a two-year work. ‘Azerbaijan
agreed with all the principles reflected in it and now it must not
juggle’, the minister said. He also mentioned the continuing cease-fire
violations, militarist statements by the Azerbaijani leadership and
the attempts to change the format of the negotiations and discuss
the problem at the UN.
‘Their program, tactics and strategy are so evident that they will
fail concealing them. They are mistaken, undoubtedly. There is
no alternative to the negotiations in the settlement of Karabakh
conflict. The settlement cannot but be based on the full right of
Karabakh people to self-determination. The negotiations must determine
how this right will be displayed and to what display the Karabakh
party will agree’, the minister said.