Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Kazimirov: Make "Territories for Status" "Territories for Security"

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Kazimirov: Make "Territories for Status" "Territories for Security"

    VLADIMIR KAZIMIROV: IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT FORMULATION "TERRITORIES
    FOR STATUS" SHOULD BE REPLACED BY FORMULATION "TERRITORIES FOR
    SECURITY"

    YEREVAN, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN. The attention of the world community
    should be drawn to the fact that it's about two years that Azerbaijan
    has been conducting the official systematic campaign of threats of
    application of force.

    Vladimir Kazimirov, former Russian Co-chairman of OSCE Minsk Group,
    declared this on March 29 in Yerevan, speaking at the parliamentary
    hearings on Karabakh settlement. According to Kazimirov, the campaign
    of official Baku aimed at "returning to the battlefield without coming
    up to the negotiations table" should have the official response of
    OSCE. He mentioned that such conduct is contrary to the efforts of
    this organization, under the aegis of which the negotiations process
    was held for 13 years, and to the direct obligations of all OSCE
    member states. The reporter said that Azeri President Ilham Aliyev,
    for whom the Karabakh settlement is much more dangerous than for
    father Aliyev, toughened the conditions in order to avoid agreement.

    Mentioning that the audience won't like many statements in
    his speech, Kazimirov declared that the hearings once more confirm
    that when speaking about the settlement of such a complicated conflict
    as Karabakh one "complacency is harmful even for those imagining
    themselves winners." He mentioned that both during the hearings and in
    Armenian press the territories beyond Nagorno Karabakh bounds are
    called released. In the period of war we might speak about deliverance
    from weapon emplacements from where the Karabakh populated areas were
    fired, while such a vocabulary is inadmissible in conditions of search
    for peace. The reporter also declared that Armenia will manage to hide
    under the mask of the guarantor of Nagorno Karabakh security. "It's a
    very convenient position - to consider as if this is an Azeri-Karabakh
    conflict and Armenia keeps aside and only morally sympathizes," he
    mentioned and called on to be engaged in real politics.

    In the reporter's opinion, this "propaganda fundamentalism" won't help
    Armenia in international organizations. Vladimir Kazimirov was
    surprised at the claims of the Armenian party to David Atkinson's
    report. In his opinion, "this is an attempt to characterize the state
    of affairs for the present moment, and what is extremely important,
    without going either into the essence of the conflict or its course."
    Kazimirov called the attempt to choose between the principle of
    territorial integrity and right to self-determination a deadlock
    way. In his opinion, "the pragmatic unprincipled transactions are much
    more productive when even if something may be exchanged for another
    thing."

    Speaking about the sides' discussions on package or stage-by-stage
    solution, Kazimirov said that the package solution would be ideal but
    it can't be realized in the foreseeable time. "You also won't agree to
    the package, in which Nagorno Karabakh will be hidden within
    Azerbaijan's staff," the reporter said. He also added that signing of
    such a package by Azeri President will be equal to "hara-kiri" for
    him. Kazimirov advised to be guided by the stage-by-stage solution
    though not by the one suggested by Azerbaijan. In his opinion, the
    formulation "territories for status" has one more flaw - it is of
    forcible origin though it's obvious that the forcible solution is
    primordial and was thrusted by the opposite side.

    Kazimirov considers the principle "territories for security" more
    vital and real and considers it necessary to receive real guarantees
    of security from Azerbaijan while applying the last principle.
Working...
X