Head of parliament: NKR will participate in negotiations on Karabakh regulation sometime
11.06.2011,
01:21
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) will sooner or earlier participate in negotiation process on regulation of Karabakh conflict, considers the Chairman of National Assembly of NKR Ashot Ghulyan.
YEREVAN, June 10. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) will sooner or earlier participate in negotiation process on regulation of Karabakh conflict, considers the Chairman of National Assembly of NKR Ashot Ghulyan.
“Today the largest enemy of independent participation of NKR in this process is Azerbaijan. However, I consider that it is conditioned by the wish of Azerbaijan and as it is fixed in the main documents of OSCE Minsk Group and Budapest summit, Karabakh will participate in negotiations sometime”, he said to the journalists in the frames of eighth meeting of Armenian-Karabakh committee on inter-parliament cooperation in Yerevan.
After the last meeting of NKR president Bako Sahakyan with co-chairmen it was stated that NKR sees its participation in all the phases of negotiation process.
Today, significant activation of negotiation process is observed as in the past there have also been active phases of the process which seemed to be close to the solution of the conflict.
Answering the question whether there are contradictions between Armenia and NKR regarding the document being on the table of negotiations, Ghulyan said that Karabakh parliament in 2008 had a political announcement where it said that NKR has some provisions regarding Madrid principles, “however, as these elements are regularly changed, it is difficult to speak about the situation today in the context of their acceptability”.
“However, the position remained unchanged and we insist on our provisions”, he said.
Speaking about the expectations on the issue of recognizing NKR by Armenia, Ghulyan said that “we can achieve relevant position through discussions on inter-parliamentary level and consultations with various bodies of authorities”.
Karabakh conflict started in 1988 after announcement of coming out of Nagorno- Karabakh from Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1991 referendum took place in Nagorno- Karabakh where 99.89% agreed to become independent from Azerbaijan. On May 12, 1994 military actions were terminated in the zone. About 25-30 thousand people died from each side and about 1 million had to leave their houses.
Cease-fire continues till now. From 1992 till present negotiations are conducted on peaceful regulation of the conflict in the frames of Minsk Group of OSCE, co-chairmen of which are USA, Russia and France. -0-
“Today the largest enemy of independent participation of NKR in this process is Azerbaijan. However, I consider that it is conditioned by the wish of Azerbaijan and as it is fixed in the main documents of OSCE Minsk Group and Budapest summit, Karabakh will participate in negotiations sometime”, he said to the journalists in the frames of eighth meeting of Armenian-Karabakh committee on inter-parliament cooperation in Yerevan.
After the last meeting of NKR president Bako Sahakyan with co-chairmen it was stated that NKR sees its participation in all the phases of negotiation process.
Today, significant activation of negotiation process is observed as in the past there have also been active phases of the process which seemed to be close to the solution of the conflict.
Answering the question whether there are contradictions between Armenia and NKR regarding the document being on the table of negotiations, Ghulyan said that Karabakh parliament in 2008 had a political announcement where it said that NKR has some provisions regarding Madrid principles, “however, as these elements are regularly changed, it is difficult to speak about the situation today in the context of their acceptability”.
“However, the position remained unchanged and we insist on our provisions”, he said.
Speaking about the expectations on the issue of recognizing NKR by Armenia, Ghulyan said that “we can achieve relevant position through discussions on inter-parliamentary level and consultations with various bodies of authorities”.
Karabakh conflict started in 1988 after announcement of coming out of Nagorno- Karabakh from Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1991 referendum took place in Nagorno- Karabakh where 99.89% agreed to become independent from Azerbaijan. On May 12, 1994 military actions were terminated in the zone. About 25-30 thousand people died from each side and about 1 million had to leave their houses.
Cease-fire continues till now. From 1992 till present negotiations are conducted on peaceful regulation of the conflict in the frames of Minsk Group of OSCE, co-chairmen of which are USA, Russia and France. -0-
