AZERBAIJAN TRYING TO REMOVE RUSSIA, U.S. AND FRANCE FROM OSCE MG
PanARMENIAN.Net
20.03.2008 18:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Azerbaijani authorities undertook to address a
task which is quite obviously beyond their sole competence, Head of
the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the MoD, Doctor of
Political Sciences, Major General Hayk Kotanjian said in an interview
with the press center of the RA Ministry of Defense.
"By their actions they are trying to persuade the international
community that the application of common principle of respect towards
Armenians of Karabakh based on the human rights and freedoms registered
in the UN Charter as a universal norm is purely their own internal
business. They aim at disavowing the OSCE Minsk Group and removing
Russia, the U.S. and France from the MG in connection with their
systemic approaches to the application of the norms and principles
of International law on the Karabakh conflict resolution," he said.
"The point is that the Baku politicians are trying to impose their
own opportunistic-local interpretation of the international law
concerning the settlement and resolution of the Karabakh issue. And
they are doing it with presumption of "lawmakers and indisputable
interpreters" of international law not only domestically but also
before the international auditoria. The head of the neighboring
state, as well as the MFA officials in their statements on the
Baku authorities’ commitments to the conflict resolution in "strict
conformity with the international law", persistently parallel this
very conformity with only one of the common norms of the International
law-the principle of territorial integrity and ignoring the other norms
applied when dealing with the problems like that of Karabakh. In this
context the ignorance of the principle of peoples’ equality and their
right to self-determination is of strictly manipulative nature. This
unilateral approach by Baku to the norms of International law cannot
be of serious influence upon the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs’ expert
position," the Major General said.