STEPANAKERT. - Following the large-scale aggression against the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) on 2-5 April this year, the Azerbaijani authorities continue their efforts towards bringing the peaceful settlement process of the conflict to a final breakdown and shifting it to a military domain. Azerbaijan’s attempts to unilaterally denounce the tripartite agreement on the ceasefire of May 12, 1994 at the UN and the OSCE come to prove this. Along with that, the Azerbaijani side resorts to its traditional practice of fraud and manipulation, trying to lay the blame on the Armenian side, and thereby avoid liability for unleashing a war.
In this regard, we consider it necessary to remind that the agreement of 12 May 1994, concluded between the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia for an indefinite term is the only real achievement in the settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict. Thanks to this very agreement, the foundations for peaceful negotiations were laid and conditions for the activity of mediators in finding a fair and final solution to the conflict were created.
Sharing the viewpoint of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on that this agreement, as well as the agreement of February 1995, form the basis of the ceasefire and its strengthening, we believe it is extremely important to consolidate the position of the international community and the mediator-states to take effective and urgent measures in forcing Azerbaijan to comply with the commitments made within the framework of these agreements.
The NKR MFA strongly condemns any attempts of the Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider these agreements, considering them as an overt intention of Azerbaijan to unleash a new war, and insists on the full restoration of the ceasefire regime established in May 1994.
To guarantee the security of the NKR and its population, as well as to promote peace and stability in the region, the NKR authorities will take diplomatic and other possible measures to safeguard the full implementation of the agreements of 12 May 1994 and 6 February 1995, and to rule out the possibility of the developments according to the criminal scenario hatched by the Azerbaijani leadership.
