No military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, vice president of Bundestag says
24.05.2016,
16:58
There is no military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Vice President of the German Bundestag Edelgard Bulmahn said today in Yerevan.
YEREVAN, May 24. /ARKA/. There is no military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Vice President of the German Bundestag Edelgard Bulmahn said today in Yerevan.
She said Germany’s Bundestag supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group towards the settlement of the conflict. “We urge all the parties to the conflict to observe the ceasefire,' she said during a joint press briefing with deputy chairman of the Armenian parliament Eduard Sharmazanov.
During the May 16 meeting in Vienna, mediated by the United States, Russia and France Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia and Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan agreed to work out safeguards against ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh and resume their search for a compromise peace deal.
According to Edelgard Bulmahn, introduction of mechanisms to investigate incidents on the contact line will be an important precondition for the prevention of the escalation of violence.
"Germany, as the country chairing the OSCE, will make all efforts for a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict," she said.
In turn, Sharmazanov stressed that today the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination has no alternative.
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---
She said Germany’s Bundestag supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group towards the settlement of the conflict. “We urge all the parties to the conflict to observe the ceasefire,' she said during a joint press briefing with deputy chairman of the Armenian parliament Eduard Sharmazanov.
During the May 16 meeting in Vienna, mediated by the United States, Russia and France Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia and Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan agreed to work out safeguards against ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh and resume their search for a compromise peace deal.
According to Edelgard Bulmahn, introduction of mechanisms to investigate incidents on the contact line will be an important precondition for the prevention of the escalation of violence.
"Germany, as the country chairing the OSCE, will make all efforts for a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict," she said.
In turn, Sharmazanov stressed that today the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination has no alternative.
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---
