Azerbaijan Distorts the Essence of Talks over Karabakh: Edward Nalbandyan

It is not only the reality about the reasons and the consequences of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict that Azerbaijan continues to distort, but also the essence of the current talks. Besides Azerbaijan uses every single opportunity to make threats about using force, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said at the 120th session of the committee of foreign ministers of the Council of Europe held on May 11 in Strasbourg.

“The statement about Nagorno Karabakh adopted by the OSCE foreign ministers last December in Athens put the accent on the non-use of force or threat of force, people’s national self-determination right and territorial integrity as the fundamental principles of the settlement of the conflict. The same principles make the foundation of the Madrid Principles proposed by the OSCE co-chairpersons in 2007,” said Nalbandyan.

Further Armenia’s FM said that Azerbaijan was rejecting the existence of that document for more than a year, unless they declared that they accept it but with some reservations.

According to Nalbandyan if we try to see what the points are that Azerbaijan agrees on or is opposed to, we will see that the exceptions prevail.

“While the adopted provisions are presented the way they want. Not only does Azerbaijan continue to distort the reality about the reasons and the consequences of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict but also the essence of the current talks and uses every single opportunity to make threats about using force,” said Nalbandyan.