RA MFA: Azerbaijan, signing truce with NKR, actually recognizes
Nagorno Karabakh’s independence

21.03.2010 15:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Statements by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev are direct evidence that Baku is not ready to a constructive
dialogue over the Karabakh conflict resolution, Shavarsh Kocharyan ,
Armenian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs said, commenting on the
recent statement by the President of Azerbaijan on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

"Azerbaijan continues to inflate a bubble of illusions, sitting on the
oil needle, this is a "bubble" of continuous distortion of the essence
of the conflict, its causes and the negotiation process. The flow of
militaristic rhetoric has not been stopped so far. Azerbaijan has the
opportunity to withdraw its troops from the occupied territories of
Nagorno Karabakh and begin negotiations with the Republic of Artsakh,
before this bubble bursts, " Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia said.

According to Shavarsh Kocharyan, President Aliyev voiced a regular
monologue, Azerbaijan completed negotiations with itself and the
outcomes of those negotiations are broadly in line with Azerbaijani
interests, with some exceptions – apparently they cannot even agree
with themselves.

"President Aliyev, after inheriting the power, imagined, that he can
speak on behalf of the time, international law, the mediators, the
people of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku pretends it does not
understand there is no alternative to the Nagorno Karabakh’s
independence either now or in a hundred years, or ever. Nagorno
Karabakh Republic is a state established in full accordance with
international law, the state, which managed to resist the policy of
ethnic cleansing and aggression of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, signing a
truce with the NKR, actually recognized the independence of Nagorno
Karabakh in 1994, " Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia said.
From: Baghdasarian