TURKISH FM: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN KARABAKH ARE PROVOCATION
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 24 2015
24 February 2015 – 3:30pm
Turkish Republic considers the ‘parliamentary elections’ to take place
on May 3 in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region, which has been under
Armenian occupation for more than 20 years, are part of attempts to
unilaterally legitimize the unlawful situation in those territories,
the Turkish Foreign Ministry said today.
“Such initiatives would mean an apparent violation of international
law, UN Security Council resolutions and OSCE principles. At a time
when the OSCE negotiations, aimed at achieving a peaceful solution to
the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, and the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict
are continuing, these illegal ‘elections’ are not going to contribute
to settlement efforts in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region,” the
Turkish Foreign Ministry said, stressing that the country strictly
condemns this act, which is aimed at a new violation of Azerbaijan’s
sovereignty and territorial integrity, and does not recognize any
results of these kinds of illegal initiatives that have nothing to
do with international law.
The separatist Nagorno-Karabakh regime is planning to hold
‘parliamentary elections’ in the occupied Azerbaijani territories on
May 3.