STEPANAKERT. – The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NKR/Artsakh MFA) shares Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland’s view that the organization should fulfill its mandate also in Nagorno-Karabakh, and politicization of the issue of access to Nagorno-Karabakh is inadmissible. 

NKR MFA Spokesperson Ani Sargsyan stated the aforementioned while commenting—at the request of Armenian News-NEWS.am—on Jagland stressing, during the PACE autumn session on Monday, the need for the CoE to have access to Nagorno-Karabakh.

“The goal of the Council of Europe is to promote the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law throughout the European continent, and the unresolved Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict should not serve as an excuse for ignoring the rights of the people of Nagorno Karabakh,” added Sargsyan. “By impeding the visit of epresentatives of the Council of Europe to Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan demonstrates, first of all, its disregard for the goals and principles, which lie at the core of this organization.”