TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 30 2008
Public Cannot Derive Expected Results from Minsk Group on
Nagorno-Karabakh Solution -Vice Speaker
30.03.08 18:11
Azerbaijan, Baku, 30 March / Trend News corr. S.Ilhamgii / Bahar
Muradova, the Vice-Speaker of Azerbaijan, does not agree with the
demand of the public-political organizations to dissolve OSCE Minsk
Group.
`I consider most appropriable the official position of Azerbaijani
State in this issue,’ Muradova said to journalists.
The project of Resolution on Situation in Occupied Territories of
Azerbaijan adopted during the 62nd session of UN General Assembly on
14 March. The representatives of three countries-co-chairs of OSCE
Minsk Group, the United States, Russian and France, being mediators
between Armenia and Azerbaijan voted against the resolution for
peaceful settlement of the conflict. The public and most political
structures of Azerbaijan started the campaign to refuse from
mediation of co-chairs and dissolve of Minsk group.
Vice Speaker stated she considered appropriable adoption of the
resolution submitted by Azerbaijan. As Azerbaijan could not reach
such results several years before.
`Different countries have different political and economic approach
to such issue. We cannot force them to make such step in favor of
Azerbaijan. However, countries with broader possibilities affected on
other countries to vote against the resolution. We take this fact
with great regret,’ the Vice Speaker said.
Muradova noted that the Azerbaijani States submitted an appeal to
OSCE Secretariat to dissolve Minsk Group or to change its
composition. Muradova believes that the protests of the Azerbaijani
population against the positions of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs should
be taken normally. ‘Public cannot receive the expected results from
Minsk Group for a long time. In any case it is necessary to support
the official position of the state to continue the mediation by OSCE
Minsk Group in the peace processes,’ Vice Speaker said.