Azerbaijan unable to independently return to constructive negotiations over Karabakh settlement
27.03.2018,
16:40
Azerbaijan is unable to independently return to constructive negotiations over the Karabakh conflict settlement, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said at a news conference on Tuesday when asked to comment an Azerbaijani statement that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have 'new and creative ideas' for the conflict settlement.
YEREVAN, March 27. /ARKA/. Azerbaijan is unable to independently return to constructive negotiations over the Karabakh conflict settlement, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said at a news conference on Tuesday when asked to comment an Azerbaijani statement that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have 'new and creative ideas' for the conflict settlement.
'Azerbaijani leaders speak about the need for meaningful and logical negotiations, as though until now the negotiations have been incontinent and illogical. This in mind we can ask why then the president of this country held more than two dozen meetings with his Armenian counterpart, ' Nalbandian said.
According to Nalbandian, the ;'new and creative ideas' stem from Azerbaijan's unhealthy imagination. This has led to claiming that Armenia's capital Yerevan, which is 2,800 years old is an historical Azerbaijani land.
Nalbandian said Azerbaijani leadership might have found a new way to explain their rejection of the proposals and conflict settlement principles, made by the leaders of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries.
"In fact, it is very important for Azerbaijan to abandon the linguistic exercises that are far from reality and return to the constructive negotiations, fulfill the obligations undertaken and respect the agreements reached. Perhaps Azerbaijan is unable to return to the constructive negotiations independently and it must be returned there, "he said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year. On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. -0-
'Azerbaijani leaders speak about the need for meaningful and logical negotiations, as though until now the negotiations have been incontinent and illogical. This in mind we can ask why then the president of this country held more than two dozen meetings with his Armenian counterpart, ' Nalbandian said.
According to Nalbandian, the ;'new and creative ideas' stem from Azerbaijan's unhealthy imagination. This has led to claiming that Armenia's capital Yerevan, which is 2,800 years old is an historical Azerbaijani land.
Nalbandian said Azerbaijani leadership might have found a new way to explain their rejection of the proposals and conflict settlement principles, made by the leaders of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries.
"In fact, it is very important for Azerbaijan to abandon the linguistic exercises that are far from reality and return to the constructive negotiations, fulfill the obligations undertaken and respect the agreements reached. Perhaps Azerbaijan is unable to return to the constructive negotiations independently and it must be returned there, "he said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year. On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. -0-
