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Tahir Taghizadeh: Armenia wants CE and YUNESCO experts to monitor only in Nakhchivan, but we want them to monitor conflict zone

09 January 2007 17:25 (UTC +04:00)

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian held press conference about the priority issues of his country in 2007, APA reports. Stressing that they will continue the negotiations about the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the minister noted that they will deepen the relations with Russia and Georgia.
â€œWe have many joint programs with Iran and the most important of them is Iran-Armenia gas pipeline. We hope that we will archive it in the first quarter of 2007,â€? he said.
â€œThe policy towards Turkey will be continued, which supposes opening of borders without preconditions. The issue of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire will be at the center of attention, as well as the problem of the Armenian cemetery in Old Djulfa,â€? the minister said.
Oskanian said that serious changes that reflected Armenia and the region and activation of GUAM happened in 2006.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry press and Information Policy department Chief Tahir Taghizadeh told APA that Council of Europe and YUNESCO take necessary measures for monitoring destroyed cultural monuments in Azerbaijani territories.
â€œArmenia tries for only experts to go to Nakhchivan. Our aim is to achieve their monitoring in conflict zones,â€? Taghizadeh noted.
Taghizadeh also expressed his attitude to Armenian ministerâ€™s statement about the activation of the processes in GUAM and said that Oskanian while using these expressions considered the measures to be taken for â€œfrozen conflictsâ€?. /APA/