Azerbaijan trying to derail peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict
27.04.2016,
11:03
Following the large-scale aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic carried out on April 2 to 5, Azerbaijan’s authorities continue making efforts to undermine the process of peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict and to move it to military field, the republic’s foreign ministry says in a statement.
STEPANAKERT, April 27. /ARKA/. Following the large-scale aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic carried out on April 2 to 5, Azerbaijan’s authorities continue making efforts to undermine the process of peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict and to move it to military field, the republic’s foreign ministry says in a statement.
The ministry says in its statement that Azerbaijan’s attempts of unilateral denouncement of the trilateral truce reached on May 12, 1994.
Azerbaijan is again resorting to its usual practice of forgery and manipulations in an attempt to put the blame upon Armenian sides and avoid responsibility for initiation of war.
On April 2, 2016 Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno Karabakh.
A ceasefire arrangement was announced four days later, but the Azerbaijani side violates it every night.
In its statement, the Karabakh foreign ministry finds it necessary to say that the May 12, 1994 truce is the only real achievement in the Karabakh conflict settlement process.
“This very agreement laid ground for peace talks and created conditions for mediators’ efforts to find a just and final solution to the problem,” the statement says.
Sharing the opinion of OSCE Minsk Group, which says that this agreement, just like the February 1995 agreement, lays grounds for maintaining ceasefire, the foreign ministry urges the international community and mediator countries to consolidate their positions for taking urgent effective steps to force Azerbaijan to comply with the commitments it has assumed as part of these agreements.
The Karabakh foreign ministry strongly condemns the Azerbaijani authorities’ attempts to revise these agreements, considering them as their obvious intention to initiate another war, and insists on a full restoration of the ceasefire regime set in May 1994.
”To ensure security to Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and its population and to establish peace and stability in the region, the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities will take any diplomatic and other possible measure to achieve a full compliance with the agreements dated from May 12, 1994 and February 6, 1995 and leave no room for putting the Azerbaijani leadership's criminal scenario into practice.”
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out in 1998 February when the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region announced its secession from Azerbaijan. In September 1991, the region declared itself the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and, over the course of the enduring conflict, Azerbaijan subsequently lost control of the region.
In 1994, a Russia-brokered cease-fire was signed and peace talks have been held since, mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group. --0----
The ministry says in its statement that Azerbaijan’s attempts of unilateral denouncement of the trilateral truce reached on May 12, 1994.
Azerbaijan is again resorting to its usual practice of forgery and manipulations in an attempt to put the blame upon Armenian sides and avoid responsibility for initiation of war.
On April 2, 2016 Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno Karabakh.
A ceasefire arrangement was announced four days later, but the Azerbaijani side violates it every night.
In its statement, the Karabakh foreign ministry finds it necessary to say that the May 12, 1994 truce is the only real achievement in the Karabakh conflict settlement process.
“This very agreement laid ground for peace talks and created conditions for mediators’ efforts to find a just and final solution to the problem,” the statement says.
Sharing the opinion of OSCE Minsk Group, which says that this agreement, just like the February 1995 agreement, lays grounds for maintaining ceasefire, the foreign ministry urges the international community and mediator countries to consolidate their positions for taking urgent effective steps to force Azerbaijan to comply with the commitments it has assumed as part of these agreements.
The Karabakh foreign ministry strongly condemns the Azerbaijani authorities’ attempts to revise these agreements, considering them as their obvious intention to initiate another war, and insists on a full restoration of the ceasefire regime set in May 1994.
”To ensure security to Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and its population and to establish peace and stability in the region, the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities will take any diplomatic and other possible measure to achieve a full compliance with the agreements dated from May 12, 1994 and February 6, 1995 and leave no room for putting the Azerbaijani leadership's criminal scenario into practice.”
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out in 1998 February when the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region announced its secession from Azerbaijan. In September 1991, the region declared itself the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and, over the course of the enduring conflict, Azerbaijan subsequently lost control of the region.
In 1994, a Russia-brokered cease-fire was signed and peace talks have been held since, mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group. --0----
