YEREVAN. – The Azerbaijani party has shown yet again that it is not yet ready for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement based on the norms and principles of international law.
Armenia Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated the aforesaid at Monday’s joint news conference with Helen Clark, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
“The OSCE Minsk Group and the Co-Chairs, which are dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, are not among the organizations which the Azerbaijani FM presented at the UN rostrum.
“The organizations, which the Azerbaijan FM referred to, not only do not have this mandate, but they do not deal with these matters. And Azerbaijan attempts to transfer the negotiation process to other formats where there is no deep understanding of this problem,” Nalbandian specifically noted.
In his words, this is yet another proof that Azerbaijan is still not ready for a settlement based on the norms and principles of international law, and on those provisions that are introduced in the five declarations by the presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries (Russia, US, and France).
“Armenia [, on the other hand,] has repeatedly stated that we stand ready for the conflict’s solely pacific resolution based on this,” the Armenian FM stressed.
