The Riksdag (Parliament) of Sweden on Wednesday rejected Azerbaijan’s proposal with respect to Nagorno-Karabakh.

The proposal, which was introduced last year and on the initiative of Mehmet Kaplan from the Green Party, was calling upon Sweden to actively partake in the Karabakh process, and with a demand that all Armenian military troops be pulled out from Azerbaijan’s occupied territories and that the international organizations function along the lines of Azerbaijan’s territorial boundaries.  

This proposal, which was signed by just one person, was not examined separately, and it was put to a vote together with several other mattes.    

In its stead, however, the Swedish Parliament adopted the formulation of its Foreign Affairs Committee, and announced that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved pacifically and that the OSCE Minsk Group is the mechanism for resolving this problem. 

It is noteworthy that the aforesaid formulation also contains a view on the talks concerning the EU Eastern Partnership Project with the countries of the South Caucasus.      

“The talks are continuing, and Georgia and Armenia have achieved a considerable progress, in the case when the talks with Azerbaijan were more complicated,” the adopted text specifically reads.