NKR FM: ATTEMPT TO PULL KARABAKH BACK TO PAST DOOMED TO FAILURE

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.12.2008 18:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The current status quo is the result of aggression
and consequent hostilities of Azerbaijan against NKR and its people,
the NKR Foreign Minister said.

"As an initiator of the war, Azerbaijan carries full responsibility
for the consequences. The existing status quo is the minimum that
allowed guaranteeing the security and independence of NKR and its
people under Azerbaijani aggression," Georgy Petrossian said.

"The policy of the NKR authorities is directed to maintaining peace
and guaranteeing the irreversibility of the process of establishment
of long-time stability in the region. Changing the status quo,
as we see it, will inevitably lead to destabilization of the
situation and escalation of tensions with a possible resumption
of hostilities. During the years of Soviet rule, the leadership of
the Azerbaijani SSR, including "national leader" Heydar Aliyev, was
trying to make Nagorno Karabakh not self-sufficient and dependent
on Baku, first of all with their attempts to change the demographic
composition of the population. This was also the case while drawing
the borders of the former Nagorno Karabakh autonomous region. Today,
they are trying to return Nagorno Karabakh into the past. However
these attempts are doomed to failure," he said.

"The readiness to risk regional peace, a basic precondition for
social-economic development and realization of international investment
projects, makes the policy of official Baku a serious threat not
only to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, but also to regional peace
and security," the Minister added.