AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTRY CONSIDERS MEDIATOR’S WAR COMMENTS

news.az
March 15 2010
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry The Foreign Ministry is looking into
reported comments by a European mediator that Azerbaijan would not
win a war with Armenia.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry is investigating the statements
made by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair from France, Bernard Fassier,
in Yerevan and will declare Azerbaijan’s position, Foreign Ministry
Elkhan Polukhov said on Saturday.

Armenian news agencies reported Fassier as telling a NATO seminar in
Yerevan on Friday that, ‘Azerbaijan’s victory in the event of renewed
war is impossible, because I know about the bravery of Armenian and
Karabakh warriors.’

This seems to be Armenian fiction, Elkhan Polukhov said.

‘If such serious statements are made by one of the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs, they should be explained,’ he concluded.

Fassier went on to say at the seminar, ‘People must understand that
neighbours are destined to live next to each other.’ He said that
the use of force and resumption of war would not solve the Karabakh
conflict.