BAKU DISTORTS EVERYTHING THAT ACCEPTS, SAYS NALBANDIAN

Aysor
March 18 2010
Armenia

Madrid Document is still the agenda of talks on settlement to the
Karabakh conflict, said Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
at the joint press conference, held with Slovak Foreign Minister
Miroslav Lajcak, who is on a visit to Armenia.

Edward Nalbandian pointed that Azerbaijan for a long time refused to
negotiate under the Madrid Document of November 2007, containing the
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ wording on Basic Principles; and since
Azerbaijan involved in talks, it never said of its approval and
acceptance of the Document as a basis for talks. "If Azerbaijan is
accepting the Madrid Document now, then this should be only welcomed,"
said Armenian Foreign Minister.

According to Edward Nalbandian, Aliev administration accepts the
Madrid Document with some exceptions. Nalbandian pointed: "Actually,
the Azerbaijani side excludes more, than accepts; and it even gives a
false color to accepted wordings, meanings of talks and consultations."

According to Nalbandian, MG Co-Chairs have been repeatedly delivering
proposals on settlement to the conflict.

"We discuss these and previous proposals, and this is a usual working
process. Time after time and lately even more actively, Azerbaijan
uses a ‘smokescreen’, saying that one side accepted proposals, or
saying that one side is non-constructive," said Edward Nalbandian.

He also told journalists about his visit to France and meeting with
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Personal Representative of the CiO,
and said that the meeting was held in the same constructive spirit
as in recent years.