To sign any document impossible without Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in negotiations – Armenian FM

To sign any document impossible without Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in negotiations – Armenian FM
# 26 May 2016 15:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Malahat Najafova – APA. All working documents related to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict include a point which emphasizes that the Nagorno-Karabakh should participate in the negotiations, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said at the session of the country’s National Assembly on Thursday, Armenpress reported.

The minister said it is impossible to sign any document without the participation of Nagorno-Karabakh.

There is no a document which is prepared for being signed soon between Armenian and Azerbaijan, Nalbandian stressed.

“Conditions are needed for the resumption of negotiations. If these conditions are created and there are monitoring capabilities, it will be possible to start the negotiations. Efforts are being made in this regard,” Armenia’s FM said.

He added that the full implementation of the agreements reached at the Vienna meeting may be discussed during the meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, and it can pave the way for the next phase of the negotiations.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.

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