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Interfax, Russia
July 20 2012
Karabakh settlement doesn't depend on Nagorno-Karabakh elections - Lukashevich
MOSCOW. July 20
Russia does not see any direct link between the presidential elections
in the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the peaceful
settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
"Moscow does not think that the outcome of the peace process in
Nagorno-Karabakh could depend on the elections there," Russian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said at a press briefing in
Moscow on Friday.
The official position on the elections in Nagorno-Karabakh of the
three countries that co-chair the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's Minsk Group (the United States, France and
Russia) will be published on the OSCE official website on Friday, he
said.
Moscow does not recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state,
"like all other countries," he said.
"Russia has been consistently advocating a political-diplomatic
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, based on the UN Charter,
the Helsinki Final Act and other fundamental documents adopted by the
UN and the OSCE, especially the principles of non-use of force or
threats of using force, the countries' territorial integrity and the
nations' right to self-determination," he said.
"Moscow will continue working with the conflicting parties on this
track in cooperation with the other members of the Minsk Group and on
the basis of the provisions, laid down in the joint summit statements
made between 2009 and 2012," Lukashevich said.
July 20 2012
Karabakh settlement doesn't depend on Nagorno-Karabakh elections - Lukashevich
MOSCOW. July 20
Russia does not see any direct link between the presidential elections
in the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the peaceful
settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
"Moscow does not think that the outcome of the peace process in
Nagorno-Karabakh could depend on the elections there," Russian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said at a press briefing in
Moscow on Friday.
The official position on the elections in Nagorno-Karabakh of the
three countries that co-chair the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's Minsk Group (the United States, France and
Russia) will be published on the OSCE official website on Friday, he
said.
Moscow does not recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state,
"like all other countries," he said.
"Russia has been consistently advocating a political-diplomatic
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, based on the UN Charter,
the Helsinki Final Act and other fundamental documents adopted by the
UN and the OSCE, especially the principles of non-use of force or
threats of using force, the countries' territorial integrity and the
nations' right to self-determination," he said.
"Moscow will continue working with the conflicting parties on this
track in cooperation with the other members of the Minsk Group and on
the basis of the provisions, laid down in the joint summit statements
made between 2009 and 2012," Lukashevich said.