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BRYZA: RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY POSSIBLE TO BE COMBINED
PanARMENIAN.Net
08.02.2007 15:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "I'd like Armenia also to participate in regional
projects. But I understand that now our friends, who realize
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project, are not ready to include Armenia. But
it is a political fact," stated OSCE MG American Co-Chair Matthew
Bryza. "Nevertheless, we support both Azerbaijan, and Turkey and
Georgia. As to Armenia, we'd like to find a solution to the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict in order not to let such projects bypass all sides,"
he stressed.
Responding the question if it is possible to simultaneously satisfy
claims to support peoples' right to self-determination and territorial
integrity, Matthew Bryza said, "It's possible. This is our task
as diplomats. We should find a compromise between the right of
self-determination and territorial integrity.
No universal principle exists. Every conflict differs from others. I
think it is quite possible, if we create conditions to make possible
such a compromise.
Though it is difficult. Currently some technical issues remain, which
the sides disagree on. But I think till and after the elections in
Armenia it will be possible to find a common language. I do not know
if political will exists in Armenia and Azerbaijan to do that. But
I think Presidents Aliev and Kocharian want it, but when time of
political elections approach it's difficult for them to do that.
PanARMENIAN.Net
08.02.2007 15:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "I'd like Armenia also to participate in regional
projects. But I understand that now our friends, who realize
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project, are not ready to include Armenia. But
it is a political fact," stated OSCE MG American Co-Chair Matthew
Bryza. "Nevertheless, we support both Azerbaijan, and Turkey and
Georgia. As to Armenia, we'd like to find a solution to the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict in order not to let such projects bypass all sides,"
he stressed.
Responding the question if it is possible to simultaneously satisfy
claims to support peoples' right to self-determination and territorial
integrity, Matthew Bryza said, "It's possible. This is our task
as diplomats. We should find a compromise between the right of
self-determination and territorial integrity.
No universal principle exists. Every conflict differs from others. I
think it is quite possible, if we create conditions to make possible
such a compromise.
Though it is difficult. Currently some technical issues remain, which
the sides disagree on. But I think till and after the elections in
Armenia it will be possible to find a common language. I do not know
if political will exists in Armenia and Azerbaijan to do that. But
I think Presidents Aliev and Kocharian want it, but when time of
political elections approach it's difficult for them to do that.