EU COMMISSIONER: EUROPEAN UNION CONDEMNS THE MILITANT RHETORIC IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS

ArmInfo
2009-01-19 19:23:00

ArmInfo. During Jan 19 press-conference in Yerevan, EU Commissioner
for External Affairs and European Neighborhood Policy Benita
Ferrero-Waldner said that European Union and she herself are interested
in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and would be glad
if the parties could find the solution to this problem.

Benita Ferrero-Waldner expressed hope that the presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in the near future and added that
the meetings of the two countries’ presidents in Moscow and foreign
ministers in Helsinki created a positive impulse. The settlement of
this conflict is important for the whole South Caucasus region. There
are such principles as the people’s right to self-determination and
territorial integrity, and the compromising variant is between these
two principles, she said and stressed that EU condemns the militant
rhetoric in the Karabakh peace process and is willing to contribute
to the conflict settlement in every possible way.

For his part, Nalbandyan stressed that Armenia intends to continue
the peace process within the frames of the OSCE Minsk Group and on
the basis of earlier adopted documents, particularly, the Madrid
principles.