YEREVAN. – It is apparent that Azerbaijan’s discontent with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs is due to the change in their position with respect to the settlement issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Giro Manoyan, Director of the International Secretariat of Armenia’s opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party Bureau and Head of the Armenian Cause Office, told this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.   

“The US could take some steps toward improving relations with Azerbaijan, but I do not think the US would contradict itself to [the point of] abandoning the precept of self-determination of peoples,” he noted.   

In Manoyan’s conviction, even though the US does not often speak about the peoples’ right to self-determination, mentioning together the precepts of non-use of force, territorial integrity, and self-determination of peoples is already is a very balanced approach by them.