STEPANAKERT. – Today the most important thing in the Karabakh-Azerbaijan conflict is the upholding of peace and stability.

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Presidential Spokesperson Davit Babayan told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am, as he commented on Thursday’s statement by the Co-Chairs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group.

“These very matters need to be discussed; it’s not right to discuss other matters, since this is the main problem; also, the introduction of appropriate mechanisms to investigate the incidents on the Line of Contact,” Babayan noted. “And if they likewise are of no use, other efforts should be made.”

The NKR presidential spokesperson noted that these mechanisms should be introduced before resuming the negotiation process, and that more practical respective steps need to be taken.

Davit Babayan added that the international mediators need to make targeted statements.

“Also, everything must be done so as to restore the full format of negotiations, especially since Azerbaijan proved—in the four-day war—that it wars against the NKR,” he said. “How is it that it wars with us [i.e. Karabakh], but does not want to negotiate with us?”

Babayan noted that the emphasis in the Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ latest statement is consistent with the statements by Serzh Sargsyan, the President of Armenia.

“If specific measures are discussed in terms of mechanisms, [if] the process goes in this way, there may be a positive result,” he added.

In his words, not only the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, but the international community, in general, have a huge respective role to play because some representatives of the international community also are impeding the establishment of peace and stability.

“What does it mean to hold the UN Alliance of Civilizations forum, the Formula One [auto] race in [the Azerbaijani capital city of] Baku? How can such events be held in the aggressor country?” Davit Babayan asked. “This gives Azerbaijan wings to continue its destructive and aggressive policy.

“This is a litmus paper, in certain terms, so that the civilized countries see their defects and get rid of them. This is important also for the strengthening universal values.”