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Araz Azimov: â€œThe position of some countries prevented the description of the basic principles of solution to the conflicts in the documents of the Astana summitâ€

03 December 2010 10:28 (UTC +04:00)

Astana. Victoria Dementieva â€“ APA. â€œWe achieved releasing of principal statements on the solution to the conflicts within the Astana summitâ€, said deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov, APA correspondent reports from Astana. He said the main principles of the settlement of the conflicts have not been described in the final document of the Astana summit, but OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev made a special statement at the Astana summit, which described the principles of the Helsinki Final Act.

Araz Azimov said this statement was in favor of Azerbaijan: â€œThe position of some countries prevented the description of the basic principles of solution to the conflict in the documents of the Astana summit because the OSCE is an organization working on the basis of the consensus and we took all steps to achieve our goals. But we achieved releasing of principal statements on the conflicts. At the request of Azerbaijan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan made an additional statement as the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, which became the official document of the summit. The statement was about the settlement of the protracted conflicts. It describes main principles and approves that these principles have an important and legal force in 2010 as it had it in 1975. All of these principles are related to each other and should be fulfilled. This statement is meeting our interests because the main principles we proposed before were that Azerbaijan agreed to elaborate the model of autonomy given to Armenians within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and according to the Helsinki Final Act, self-determination right should be fulfilled in harmony with the principle of territorial integrity not violating this principleâ€.

Azimov noted that the reason why OSCE summits were not held after 1999, was existence of contradictions and political discontents among major power centers in Euro-Atlantic space: â€œBecause of these discontents, consensus related to common agenda could not be achieved in OSCE. Thus, over 11 years new topics and directions were investigated. Established in 1975 and turned into organization after one process â€“ OSCE structure has established relations between major powers standing in the beginning of the process which had been developed within 35 years. Helsinki Final Act adopted in 1975 as a main document includes several points. But â€œDecalogueâ€ principles collection attracts more interest. The essence of these principles considers regulation of relations between the states and determination of these relations. One of major conceptual novelties of OSCEâ€™s Astana summit is that there appeared bipolarity in OSCE space again â€“ Euro-Atlantic and Eurasia. It is novelty taking root from the past and more negative results of such approach may occur in future.