NKR FM: IF AZERBAIJAN WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN CONFLICT SETTLEMENT, IT WOULD SIT DOWN AT THE NEGOTIATION TABLE WITH NAGORNO KARABAKH FAR AGO
ArmInfo
2008-11-06 15:12:00
ArmInfo. Adoption of the Declaration by the presidents of Azerbaijan,
Armenia and Russia indicates readiness of the Russian Federation
to appear as an efficient mediator in Nagorno Karabakh conflict
settlement, Foreign Minister of the NKR Georgy Petrosyan said
commenting on the recently adopted Armenian- Azerbaijani-Russian
Declaration on Karabakh conflict settlement, Information Department
of the NKR Foreign Ministry told ArmInfo.
‘This meeting may be considered as an attempt to specify the positions
of Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the prospects of Nagorno Karabakh
conflict settlement by political methods, as well as taking into
account the situation in the region which changed after the well-known
August events.
The process of settlement of the pervious years has proved that there
is a lack of the most interested link is, namely, Nagorno Karabakh, for
efficiency of negotiations. If Azerbaijan was really interested in the
conflict settlement, it would sit down at the negotiation table with
Nagorno Karabakh and would not try to put pressure on the NKR through
different international instances and countries. In any case, freedom
and independent status of Nagorno Karabakh Republic are an absolutely
interdependent sources of the NKR policy’, G. Petrosyan said.