YEREVAN. – Armenia appreciates NATO’s restrained stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Artak Zakaryan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, stated the abovementioned speaking at the international conference, entitled “Upcoming Challenges: NATO, from Wales to Warsaw and Beyond,” which is held Monday in capital city Yerevan.

In his words, Azerbaijan’s artificially turning NATO declarations into a platform to discuss the Karabakh conflict, or pulling NATO into the resolution of this conflict, is unacceptable to Armenia. As per Zakaryan, the format of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group co-chairs exists to this end.

“In international relations, cooperation with a variety of international organizations in the security domain is not a display of goodwill, but rather a necessity, which is in everyone’s interest,” he stressed. “Armenia underscores the further development of partnership relations with NATO, and is hopeful of more productive future cooperation.”