There is no military solution to Karabakh problem: Bordiuja
27.06.2013,
16:31
There is no military solution to Karabakh problem, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordiuja said Thursday, Novosti-Armenia reports.
YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. There is no military solution to Karabakh problem, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordiuja said Thursday, Novosti-Armenia reports.
“I believe only peaceful negotiations and reaching a consensus will allow solving this extremely complicated and long-lasting problem”, Bordiuja said at a briefing given with the secretary of Armenia’s National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan.
According to Bordiuja, the events that took place in the Caucasus in the last years prove that “it is very easy to initiate a conflict and be the first to use force and arms, but it is difficult to then put everything back on peaceful track”.
Bordiuja said many politicians forgot experience fr om earlier conflicts in other parts of the Soviet Union, Central Asia in particular, when it was extremely difficult to reach peace.
Bordiuja also said the CSTO is in control of the situation in Karabakh, but the peace process is dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Group.
The CSTO Secretary General said he is against any additional involvement in the current Karabakh peace process.
The Karabakh conflict started in 1988 when prevailingly Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh declared withdrawal from Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1991, a referendum was held in Nagorno-Karabakh wh ere 99.89% voted for independence from Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan responded by large-scale military operations that led to loss of control not only over Nagorno-Karabakh itself, but also over seven adjoining areas. About 25-30 thousands people were killed and about a million had to leave their homes during the military operations.
A trilateral cease-fire agreement was signed on May 12, 2004, and has been followed since then.
The ongoing Karabakh peace process started in 1992 under auspices of OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by the USA, Russia and France.–0—
