VARDAN OSKANYAN DISTORTS NAGORNY KARABAKH - RELATED FACTS
The statement in particular says it was the Armenian Minister’s one more attempt to mystify the Key West talks by citing to a certain “ the only way” allegedly agreed by both sides, and implying that Karabakh will not be a part of Azerbaijan.
“The Azerbaijani side stated more than once, and today we once again suggest Mt. Oskayan to find better application of his persistence and stop playing Key West games; we hereby reaffirm that no agreements were reached on the issues discussed in Key West, the statement says.
It is Armenia that demonstrates its “unique abilities” to violate scot-free the agreements reached, the statement says, recalling the dismissal of former Armenian President Ter-Petrosyan who had then accepted the OSCE Co-chairs’ plan of step-by-step settlement of the conflict, which implied in the first stage a withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces form the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. “The Azerbaijani side also remember other phase of the peace process when President Kocharyan okayed in principle the transfer of a part of Armenia’s territory to Azerbaijan that resulted in fusillade in the Armenian parliament,” the statement says.
It also stresses that the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh cannot a subject of compromise, it is an integral part of the Azerbaijan Republic, and that compromises are possible only in relation to the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan does not put forward any innovations; there is a rich and useful European experience of self-government. A different approach provokes dangerous tendencies, and the multinational South Caucasus region is not the only one that can face their unpredictable consequences, the statement concludes.
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