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ARMENIAN FM: AZERBAIJAN BREAKS COMMITMENTS BY POLITICIZING STEPANAKERT AIRPORT MATTER
http://www.armenianow.com/karabakh/43429/armenia_karabakh_stepanakert_azerbaijan_foreign_mi nister_nalbandian_airport
KARABAKH | 13.02.13 | 12:01
Armenian Foreign Minster Edward Nalbandian has again accused Azerbaijan
of breaking its commitment to international mediators by continuing
to politicize the issue of the airport in Karabakh.
Answering a question posed to him by an Azerbaijani journalist at a
press conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, the top Armenian diplomat again
referred to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' statement on the opening
of the Stepanakert airport, which recommends that the parties should
not politicize the issue.
"Neither Nagorno-Karabakh nor Armenia has ever politicized the matter,
nor do they intend to do so. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, is politicizing
it with its everyday statements thereby violating all the commitments
to the co-chairs," the Armenian minister emphasized.
Nalbandian stressed that unlike Azerbaijan authorities in neither
Armenia nor Nagorno-Karabakh have ever threatened to use force against
civilian aircraft, nor have they ever linked the opening of the airport
near the Karabakh capital to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem or the region's status.
Both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have repeatedly stated at the
highest level that the opening of the Stepanakert airport has only
humanitarian and civic aims, stressed Nalbandian.
http://www.armenianow.com/karabakh/43429/armenia_karabakh_stepanakert_azerbaijan_foreign_mi nister_nalbandian_airport
KARABAKH | 13.02.13 | 12:01
Armenian Foreign Minster Edward Nalbandian has again accused Azerbaijan
of breaking its commitment to international mediators by continuing
to politicize the issue of the airport in Karabakh.
Answering a question posed to him by an Azerbaijani journalist at a
press conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, the top Armenian diplomat again
referred to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' statement on the opening
of the Stepanakert airport, which recommends that the parties should
not politicize the issue.
"Neither Nagorno-Karabakh nor Armenia has ever politicized the matter,
nor do they intend to do so. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, is politicizing
it with its everyday statements thereby violating all the commitments
to the co-chairs," the Armenian minister emphasized.
Nalbandian stressed that unlike Azerbaijan authorities in neither
Armenia nor Nagorno-Karabakh have ever threatened to use force against
civilian aircraft, nor have they ever linked the opening of the airport
near the Karabakh capital to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem or the region's status.
Both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have repeatedly stated at the
highest level that the opening of the Stepanakert airport has only
humanitarian and civic aims, stressed Nalbandian.