AZERBAIJANI FM: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SILENT ABOUT UPDATED MADRID PRINCIPLES

Trend
March 23 2010
Azerbaijan

The uncensored rhetoric spread by political representatives in the
Armenian media is surprising and disappointing because they try
to misquote the position and comments of the Azerbaijani side, the
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told Trend
News on Saturday.

"Voicing the call for concluding a treaty on the non-use of force,
the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan shamefully keeps silent about
the first part of the phrase that is organically included in the
updated Madrid Principles, which is respect for the territorial
integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan," Polukhov said.

He said that the Azerbaijani side has spoken only about the part of the
Madrid Principles, which the Armenian president refused to talk about.

"The withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from the Azerbaijani
occupied territories will immediately remove the need to talk about
military resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Polukhov said.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan gave an interview to Euronews and
said that the international community has offered Armenia to solve
the problem on using the right to self-determination, territorial
integrity and non-use of force.

"I want to use the opportunity and appeal to Azerbaijan to sign an
agreement on the non-use of force. This would lay the foundation
of confidence in Armenia and Karabakh itself, enabling people to
understand that Azerbaijan stands for peaceful resolving of the
conflict. But afterwards we could work on the details …" he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress