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Baku Threatens Regional Stability, Says Nalbandian
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Friday, December 7th, 2012
Foreign minister Nalbandian takes part in OSCE Ministerial summit in Dublin
DUBLIN - Armenia's Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian on Friday during a
speech at the OSCE Ministerial Summit in the Irish capital, blasted
Azerbaijan for ignoring the organization's core principles and
promoting hatred and violating human rights. He said Azerbaijan's
actions threaten the region's stability.
Meanwhile, upon returning to Baku, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov said that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen are
ineffective.
Speaking to journalists on his return to Baku on Friday, Mammadyarov
claimed that Yerevan scuttled the planned adoption in Dublin of a
joint statement by the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers and
the U.S., Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
According to the Trend news agency, he complained that the co-chairs
`did not display sufficient persistence on this issue,' reported
RFE/RL.
In his remarks Nalbandian also said official Baku was the reason for
the stalling of the Karabakh peace talks and expressed disappointment
that the talks have been thwarted because what he termed as
Azerbaijan's unwillingness to cooperate.
`Many international organizations on human rights alerted about
flagrant cases of racism, intolerance and violations of human rights
in Azerbaijan, on the policy of hatred against Armenians,' said
Nalbandian.
`Azerbaijan is not only ignoring the expectations of the international
community, but is constantly making new steps going against the values
of civilized world. The latest such case is the Azeri government's
release and glorification of the murderer Safarov, who had slaughtered
with an axe Armenian officer in his sleep, during a NATO program in
Budapest simply because he was Armenian. The Azerbaijani leadership
made him a symbol of national pride and an example to follow by youth.
The world reaction was unanimous in condemning what was done by Baku,
which has seriously undermined the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation
process and endangered the fragile regional stability,' explained the
foreign minister,' added Nalbandian.
`Azerbaijan poses a threat to the security of the region by constantly
menacing to use force against Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia along with
daily war-mongering, by rejecting the proposals on the consolidation
of the ceasefire, by systematic provocations and ceasefire violations,
by ceaseless acts of vandalism towards the Armenian historical and
cultural heritage,' outlined Nalbandian.
`Azerbaijani authorities are notorious for violations of fundamental
freedoms in their own country, and are now trying to spread this
behavior onto others. Their approach is - if a state is not
recognized, then the people living there should be deprived of the
human rights and fundamental freedoms. According to this logic, the
people in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic should not exercise the right
to freedom of movement, be cured, get education, use drinking water
and even give birth,' said the foreign minister.
Nalbandian said the while the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen are trying
to mediate a conflict resolution, Azerbaijan is attempting to take the
negotiations out of the current format `to replace the mediators, to
denigrate Co-Chairs' efforts to find a negotiated solution.'
On the sidelines of the summit, Nalbandian had a meeting with OSCE
Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke, Igor Popov and Jacques Faure and
the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk. Issues related to the process of settlement of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict were discussed. An agreement was reached to organize
a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers early in 2013.
It was announced that a meeting between Nalbandian and Mammadyarov
would take place in January.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
http://asbarez.com/106987/baku-threatens-regional-stability-says-nalbandian/
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Foreign minister Nalbandian takes part in OSCE Ministerial summit in Dublin
DUBLIN - Armenia's Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian on Friday during a
speech at the OSCE Ministerial Summit in the Irish capital, blasted
Azerbaijan for ignoring the organization's core principles and
promoting hatred and violating human rights. He said Azerbaijan's
actions threaten the region's stability.
Meanwhile, upon returning to Baku, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov said that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen are
ineffective.
Speaking to journalists on his return to Baku on Friday, Mammadyarov
claimed that Yerevan scuttled the planned adoption in Dublin of a
joint statement by the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers and
the U.S., Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
According to the Trend news agency, he complained that the co-chairs
`did not display sufficient persistence on this issue,' reported
RFE/RL.
In his remarks Nalbandian also said official Baku was the reason for
the stalling of the Karabakh peace talks and expressed disappointment
that the talks have been thwarted because what he termed as
Azerbaijan's unwillingness to cooperate.
`Many international organizations on human rights alerted about
flagrant cases of racism, intolerance and violations of human rights
in Azerbaijan, on the policy of hatred against Armenians,' said
Nalbandian.
`Azerbaijan is not only ignoring the expectations of the international
community, but is constantly making new steps going against the values
of civilized world. The latest such case is the Azeri government's
release and glorification of the murderer Safarov, who had slaughtered
with an axe Armenian officer in his sleep, during a NATO program in
Budapest simply because he was Armenian. The Azerbaijani leadership
made him a symbol of national pride and an example to follow by youth.
The world reaction was unanimous in condemning what was done by Baku,
which has seriously undermined the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation
process and endangered the fragile regional stability,' explained the
foreign minister,' added Nalbandian.
`Azerbaijan poses a threat to the security of the region by constantly
menacing to use force against Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia along with
daily war-mongering, by rejecting the proposals on the consolidation
of the ceasefire, by systematic provocations and ceasefire violations,
by ceaseless acts of vandalism towards the Armenian historical and
cultural heritage,' outlined Nalbandian.
`Azerbaijani authorities are notorious for violations of fundamental
freedoms in their own country, and are now trying to spread this
behavior onto others. Their approach is - if a state is not
recognized, then the people living there should be deprived of the
human rights and fundamental freedoms. According to this logic, the
people in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic should not exercise the right
to freedom of movement, be cured, get education, use drinking water
and even give birth,' said the foreign minister.
Nalbandian said the while the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen are trying
to mediate a conflict resolution, Azerbaijan is attempting to take the
negotiations out of the current format `to replace the mediators, to
denigrate Co-Chairs' efforts to find a negotiated solution.'
On the sidelines of the summit, Nalbandian had a meeting with OSCE
Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke, Igor Popov and Jacques Faure and
the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk. Issues related to the process of settlement of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict were discussed. An agreement was reached to organize
a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers early in 2013.
It was announced that a meeting between Nalbandian and Mammadyarov
would take place in January.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress