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No Progress in Armenia-Azerbaijan Talks

by Asbarez Staff
December 5, 2019
in Armenia, Artsakh, Featured Story, Latest, News, Top Stories
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov with Armenia's Zohrab Mnatsakanyan in Bratislava, Slovakia
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov with Armenia’s Zohrab Mnatsakanyan in Bratislava, Slovakia

The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in the Slovak capital of Bratislava on Wednesday to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process and after a reported three and a half hour meeting no concrete progress was registered.

Joining foreign ministers Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov were the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov of Russia, Stéphane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States, as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

According to Armenia’s Foreign Ministry, the meeting focused on assessing actions toward strengthening the ceasefire, establishing confidence-building measures and pledged to continue negotiations in early next year.

The task set forth by the Minsk Group Co-chairs is for the parties to prepare their respective populations for peace. A recent effort where journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Artsakh visited each country was deemed as a modest step toward the larger goal, but the sides stressed the need for other measures to bolster confidence between the sides.

Mnatsakanyan commented on his recent meeting in Yerevan with Artsakh Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan and, again emphasized Yerevan’s long-standing issue of including Artsakh in the negotiation process.

The foreign ministers did not comment about the meeting, but each presented his viewpoint during their respective addresses at the OSCE Foreign Ministerial Summit, on the margins of which their meeting took place.

“My meeting yesterday with my Armenian counterpart lasted for three and a half hours,” Mammadyarov said in his presentation at the conference. “These were quite tough negotiations. Unfortunately, we still have unresolved problems.”

While Mnatsakanyan did not directly address the meeting, he presented a seven-point assessment of Yerevan’s approach to the peace process. He also added that more progress in talks is hampered by what he called Azerbaijan’s “maximalist positions” and “preconditions.”

Mnatsakanyan pointed to a “memorandum” outlining Baku’s official position on the conflict resolution which was circulated at the OSCE Foreign Ministerial conference. In the document, Baku was demanding the “immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh region and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan.” It also says that Karabakh’s predominantly Armenian population can only be granted “the status of self-rule … within Azerbaijan.”

In his remarks, Mnatsakanyan said that the security of the people could not be compromised and must be guaranteed, urging Baku to recognize the right to self-determination of the people of Artsakh.

“Azerbaijan must assume direct commitment to recognition of the right to self-determination of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh by way of legally binding free expression of the will of the people living in Nagorno-Karabakh, the outcome of which should have no limitation,” said Mnatsakanyan.

“The government of Armenia will never engage in any activities which can violate the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to freely determine their political status or can deprive them of the ownership of this process,” he added.

Prior to meeting Mammadyarov on Wednesday, Mnatsakanyan met separately with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen.

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Comments 5

  1. ara says:
    2 years ago

    lets takle azaerbeian and do to them what their turk blood has done to us and many others- problems resolved- they perish

    Reply
  2. Hye says:
    2 years ago

    Does anyone remember what Armenians went thro in late 1980’s in Sumgait, in Baku, in Artsakh. Has anyone been prosecuted for thse crimes. We talk about Armenian genocide, but genocide keeps hapening upon us, and no one pays for their crimes. Those individuals that commited those crimes are still alive, so justice need to be served on them instead of sending reporters to Artsakh, or Baku.

    Reply
    • A-Shot says:
      2 years ago

      @ Hye
      You have to look at the big picture

      Reply
  3. JOE says:
    2 years ago

    ARM THE ARMENIAN ARMY TO THE TEETH.
    START INDOCTRINATING DIASPORA ARMY UNITS TO FIGHT.
    START A CLANDESTINE NUCLEAR PROGRAM TO ATTACH TO THE ISKANDERS- (GOOD ENOUGH FOR ISRAEL GOOD ENOUGH FOR ARMENIA.)
    HAVE A LONG TERM GOAL TO FREE MORE LANDS OCCUPIED BY AZERBAIJAN AND MOST OF ALL WESTERN ARMENIA FROM THE ASIAN PARASITE INVADER RAPISTS TURKS THAT ENJOY THE FRUIT OF MASS MURDER TILL THIS DAY
    ITS THE ONLY ANSWER…

    Reply
  4. Edward Demiraiakian says:
    2 years ago

    The only real progress in negociations is the one obtained on the battlefield. Talk is good, talk is cheap, but the land is now mine, and mine alone to keep.

    Reply

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