Matthew Bryza: US Backs The Principle Of Territorial Integrity

MATTHEW BRYZA: US BACKS THE PRINCIPLE OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

ArmRadio.am
03.07.2006 12:32

"The US backs the principle of territorial integrity, but at the
same time we believe in the right of self-determination of peoples,
declared Matthew Bryza, US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.

"The US stands for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. We
advocate also the territorial integrity of Georgia in the Abkhazian and
South-Ossetian conflicts, as well as that of Moldova in the conflict
of Transniestria.

Simultaneously, we believe in the right for self-determination of
peoples. In case of the conflicts in Karabakh and Georgia these two
principles are contradicting each other," Matthew Bryza declared.

"It is just in such cases that diplomacy and international mediation
are necessary. The mission of the OSCE Minsk Group is to find ways of
matching these two disparate principles," the American diplomat noted.

Matthew Bryza declared also that he will visit Azerbaijan, Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh later in July.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS