news.az, Azerbaijan
April 24 2010
Armenia should understand that it ‘plays with fire’
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Araz Azimov Baku believed that notwithstanding pressures Turkey would
keep its principal position, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister Araz Azimov
said.
It will not bring good results while reaching certain point’, Deputy
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov told Public Television
whilst commenting on freezing of ratification of Turkish-Armenian
protocols by Armenia.
The Deputy Minister said Yerevan showed its real face again.
‘Serzh Sargsyan’s action has tactical character. Sargsyan intends to
force the US president to interfere in this issue deeper. His
intention and decision show how "sincere" Armenia is in its attitude
toward Turkey and Azerbaijan".
Azimov said Baku believed that notwithstanding pressures Turkey would
keep its principal position.
‘Now Ankara has to increase its diplomatic efforts to show Armenia’s
real face to the world’.
Speaking about the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ proposal to organize
meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Moscow on May 8,
Azimov said after the Sochi meeting the discussions were under the
question because Armenia’s proposals were not known.
‘If Armenia wants to secure peaceful existence of 30 000 local
residents in Nagorno Karabakh, it must reach a common agreement with
Azerbaijan. The common agreement is the territorial integrity and it
has no alternative’.
He said the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh was also stagnated.
‘It has several reasons. The biggest obstacle is a non-constructive
position of Armenia. We have to note that Serzh Sargsyan rejected all
proposals at the Sochi meeting. There are changes in the OSCE Minsk
Group too. Russian co-chair Yuriy Merzlyakov was replaced with Igor
Popov. It is high time for French co-chair Bernard Fassier to go on a
pension. US co-chair Robert Bradtke is new. He is still learning the
problems. This stagnation could be expected to last several months and
there could be some changes’.
APA