VICE SPEAKER: ARMENIA DOES NOT ACT AS A SERIOUS STATE
news.az
Nov 24 2009
Azerbaijan
Ziyafet Askerov Armenia lingers the resolution of the Karabakh
conflict, first vice speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament Ziyafet
Askerov says.
"Armenia is interested in the preservation of the quo status and does
not fulfill four resolutions of the UN Security Council, does not
follow international legal norms and principles", the news service
of Milli Medjlis quoted Askerov as saying during the meeting with
member of British House of Lords John Desmond Forbes Anderson Waverley
in Baku.
Askerov said the meetings on the level of parliamentarians have been
held for more than ten years yet aggressor Armenia does not act as
a serious state and rejects positive tendencies reached during the
negotiations thus lingering the conflict resolution.
Askerov said despite 18 year activity of the OSCE Minsk Group, there
are still no results.
Askerov said Azerbaijan supports peace and wants the peaceful
resolution of the conflict.
"But if Armenia continues to linger the peaceful resolution of the
Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan will be obliged to use military way of
liberating its lands", he said.
According to him, the international community treats the Karabakh
conflict as an observer. Askerov said the world countries should
differentiate between aggressor Armenia and victim Azerbaijan.
"These two states should be assessed for their actions and the
conflict settlement should be viewed in this very prism", the first
vice speaker said.
In turn, Lord Waverley agreed on most statements of the first vice
speaker of parliament. He noted that the settlement primarily requires
the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, return of refugees and IDPs to
their homes and provision of Armenians’ security in Nagorno Karabakh.