"KOSOVO MODEL NOT SUITABLE FOR SOLVING NAGORNI GARABAGH PROBLEM"
Ïðaâî Âûaîða, Azerbaijan
Democratic Azerbaijan
Feb 26 2007
President, Ilham Aliyev, stated so during interview for German TV radio
channel "Deutsche Welle" In the course of recent official visit to
Federal Republic of Germany, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
Ilham Aliyev, gave interview for respectable TV and radio channel of
the country "Deutsche Welle" in Berlin.
Answering question concerning OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ support of
"Kosovo model" application for regulation Nagorni Garabgh conflict,
I. Aliyev stressed that this model can not be acceptable for our
state. "Every conflict has its history and ways of regulation. Today
there are different conflicts in the world, the part of which
was broken out by separatist regimes. For example, we know that
separatists do exist in Abkhazia, South Osetia, Nagorni Garabagh
and the Trans-Dniester Region. There is no international control,
monitoring or international participation on these territories. For
this very reason illegal drug trafficking, money-laundering, harboring
of terrorists occur there. Unlike mentioned regions international
control is established in Kosovo with international peacemaking
forces. We can’t say that Kosovo like other separatist regimes in
Nagorni Garabagh and post-soviet area is sore of Europe.
At the same time while regulating such conflicts territorial integrity
should be accepted as the basic principle. If this principle is
violated chain reaction will be inevitable", President stressed.
At the same time head of state underlined that Azerbaijan will never
consent to grant independence to Nagorni Garabagh. Accordingly to
him it is impossible to allow national minorities living on the
territory of any country to create their own state at the cost of
its territories.
I. Aliyev reminded that currently Azerbaijan’s economy surpasses
Armenian’s by factor of 7, thus it will be more reasonable if opponent
party, taking courage, will withdraw occupation forces from Nagorni
Garabagh. At the same time President emphasized that Azerbaijan is
ready to present very constructive way out. He proposed to grant
maximal autonomy within the frames of territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan to Armenians living in occupied Azerbaijani territories,
providing security for all people living there.
Moreover, President focused on the issue of return of all people
displaced from native territories.
Asked if Azerbaijan is taking interests in being NATO member, I.
Aliyev informed that our country has been cooperating with NATO for
many years. "We are participating in different programs of this
structure and we hope that our partnership and cooperation will
go on. However participation of any international organization in
this structure should be mutually agreed. Both NATO and Azerbaijan
understand that our country is not ready for it today. That is why
we should continue mutual activity as partners and time will show
results of this partnership and cooperation", – I. Aliyev said.
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