NKR MFA: BAKU TRIES TO NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY WITH THE NKR AUTHORITIES

armradio.am
07.07.2009 16:05

"The Nagorno Karabakh leadership once again displayed its good will
and agreed to host the intelligentsia representatives of Armenia
and Azerbaijan, headed by Ambassadors of Armenia and Azerbaijan to
the Russian Federation Armen Smbatyan and Polad Byul-Byul Oghly, as
well as RF MFA Special Missions Ambassador, RF President’s Special
Representative on Cultural Issues Mikhail Shvidkoy, thus reaffirming
its principal allegiance to the Karabakh conflict peaceful settlement
process," NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement,
commenting on the comments by the Azerbaijan party, including the
officials of the Azerbaijani Republic, on the recent initiative of the
Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectuals, which provide misinterpretation
of the events.

"As to the certain differences concerning the Azerbaijani delegation’s
visit itinerary and members, the Karabakh party did not only demand
to change the itinerary, but also to exclude the Azerbaijani Milli
Mejlis Deputy, Khavva Mamedova, and the delegation member, Chingiz
Ismailov, out of the delegation for their obvious anti-Karabakhian
and anti-Armenian position.

Taking into consideration the Azerbaijani party’s interest in the
visit, it is easy to guess that official Baku tries to drastically
change the format of the negotiation process and to negotiate
directly, wit hout any mediators, with the NKR authorities, which
has no alternative.

Taking into account the incentives of such mutual visits aimed at
reducing the tension between the societies involved in the conflict,
the event is worth noticing.

This visit is especially notable in the sense that the Azerbaijani
intelligentsia representatives, having visited our country, evidenced
once again that they deal with an existing state, where, for the
period after the proclamation of an independent republic, overcoming
the difficulties and obstacles arisen as a result of the Azerbaijani
aggression, the imposed war, and the blockade, unprecedented progress
in all the spheres has been fixed, which created the best preconditions
for the international recognition of the NKR independence," NKR MFA
statement reads.