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Ahmet Davutoglu: We want the UN and OSCE to be more active so that Armenia withdraws from the occupied Azerbaijani territories

15 December 2012 16:52 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Mayis Alizadeh – APA. “The enhancement of the economic relations between the regional countries is very important in fair solution of the frozen conflicts,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu while responding to APA’s question at the press conference following the 27th meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).

To APA’s question “In your speech at the UN General Assembly in September, you underlined that international organizations didn’t sufficiently work for the solution of the frozen conflicts. Recently, Prime Minister Erdogan has also strongly criticized international organizations, including the UN Security Council, because of their indifferent positions to the regional conflicts. Armenia, member of BSEC, has been occupying the territories of Azerbaijan for 25 years and Russia has problem with Georgia and Moldova. Which steps are you going to take at the international organizations towards the solution of regional conflicts?”, Davutoglu said:

“At the UN General Assembly and other meetings I criticized the Security Council for not paying desired attention to the international and regional conflicts. It is the number one task of the UN to solve these problems fairly. There are problems among the BSEC member states. As you have said Armenia has occupied Azerbaijan's territories, Russia has problems with Georgia. It should be taken into account that BSEC is making efforts to achieve peace, stability and welfare in the region through enhancement of the economic relations among the member states. We think that the more economic relations among the member states are strengthened, the easier it will be to solve the frozen conflicts in the region. We want the UN and OSCE to be more active so that Armenia withdraws from the occupied Azerbaijani territories.”

Ahmet Davutoglu mentioned that Ukraine, the upcoming chairman of BSEC, will also take over OSCE chairmanship.

"I held one-on-one meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Grishchenko and thoroughly discussed the ways of increasing OSCE's influence in the fair solution of the frozen conflicts in the region. I hope the more our economic relations within BSEC are strengthened, the more significant steps will be taken towards the solution of the frozen conflicts in our region," he said.