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    ARMENIAN OFFICIAL: AZERBAIJAN'S DOGGEDNESS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH RECOGNITION

    15:34 ~U 27.06.13

    With its dogged policies on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Azerbaijan
    itself is contributing to the country's international recognition,
    an Armenian deputy foreign minister has said, commenting on President
    Ilham Aliyev's Wednesday statement stressing the need to re-establish
    the country's territorial integrity at any price.

    Speaking to Tert.am, Shavarsh Kocharyan said that statements of
    the kind are targeted more at the domestic audience in an effort to
    strengthen the image of an authoritarian regime.

    "I have got tired of giving answers, and it is surprising that that
    person {Aliyev} is never annoyed with repeating [the same thing]
    every day. And the statement is made by a country which was sobbing
    bitterly everywhere after suffering a defeat. If it were really
    ready to make such a statement, it wouldn't voice it every day. The
    statement is first of all targeted at the domestic audience because
    the maintenance of an external enemy image transfers the hereditary
    authoritarian regime," he said.

    Asked to what extent it is right to keep negotiating with such a
    country in the light of the OSCE Minsk Group's continuing calls for
    a peaceful settlement without regard to the Azerbaijani threats,
    Kocharyan answered that the peace talks have two basic objectives.

    "The co-chairs are trying, on the one hand, to reconcile the
    parties, but they won't reach [an agreement] as it is obvious to
    all that Azerbaijan is the reason behind that. On the other hand,
    Azerbaijan is facing a dilemma; it will otherwise contribute itself
    to the international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh's as the status
    quo continues.

    The second objective, which Kocharyan considered equally important,
    is the co-chairs' continuing efforts to prevent the 1994 ceasefire
    from evolving into military operations. The deputy minister said
    that the mediators' repeated statements stressing the importance of
    an exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict are targeted at
    such efforts.

    "So no wonder that Azerbaijan is all the time trying to get rid of
    the co-chairs' format or at least distort, as well as direct the issue
    to other tribunals," the deputy FM said, considering the Minsk Group
    mission a kind of strait jacket for the Azerbaijani authorities.

    Armenian News - Tert.am

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