The year 2010 showed Armenia’s constructive approach and Azerbaijan’s destructive one to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated in an interview with the Armenian Public TV.

“Although Azerbaijan is trying to show it enjoys external support, it is actually opposed to the international community. At present, all the international agencies dealing with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as countries, show approaches aligned with Armenia’s position,” Nalbandian said.

The principles and six elements are on the negotiating table now. The six elements were incorporated in the statements of the Presidents of the USA, Russia and France in L’Aquila and Muskoka. “The mediators say that the principles and elements were prepared for a long time and proposed as a whole. And it is unacceptable to give priority to one of the principles or elements over the others. What does Armenia say? Armenia says it accepts the proposals, principles, elements as a basis for negotiations. It accepts them as a whole. That is we say just what the international community says. And what does Azerbaijan say? I think they themselves do not understand what they say. They say ‘yes, but’ or ‘Yes. However -’ or ‘yes, probably not’. They must give a simple answer: ‘yes’ or ‘no’. You either accept the principle or you do not,” Minister Nalbandian said. The international community stresses the need for a peaceful settlement, and Armenia says a peaceful settlement has no alternative.

Minister Nalbandian stressed that in 2010 the international community approved the approaches that were announced as far back as 2008 and incorporated in the statement of the 56 OSCE ministers at the Helsinki Summit in December 2008, in Athens in December 2009 and in Astana in December 2010. The latest statement was made by the OSCE MG foreign ministers at the meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers.

All that was confirmed in Moscow, in a statement by the Russian, U.S. and French Presidents; in a declaration signed by the Russia, Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Astrakhan; in a five-sided statement made by the U.S., Russia, France, Armenia and Azerbaijan in Astana in December 2010.

“What does Azerbaijan say? After the Astana statement was made, the Azeri delegation spared no efforts for the statement not to be mentioned in the final document of the OSCE Summit. But Baku accepted the statement itself, did it not?” Nalbandian said.