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Sarkisian Challenges NATO on Karabakh

by Contributor
September 4, 2014
in Armenia, Artsakh, Featured Story, Latest, News, Top Stories
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President Sarkisian (center) at the NATO Summit in Wales on Thursday

Turkey Preparing Pro-Azerbaijani Document at NATO Summit

NEWPORT, Wales—President Serzh Sarkisian challenged NATO on Thursday during remarks at the summit of world leaders saying either peace will prevail in Karabakh or the continued threats of war will mar security in the region, as Turkey vowed to protect Azerbaijan’s interests at the Summit.

Saying that the Armenian people have felt threats to security on their skins and know the value of regional stability, Sarkisian that there were two options as NATO is scheduled to adopt of document Friday “that will be related to the security of my people and peace in our region.”

“There are two options. Either it [the NATO Summit] will adopt the language of the OSCE Minsk Group, which is the only specialized international structure dealing with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict–language that was proposed and supported by the Co-Chair countries that are represented here by France and the United States of America–or upon the lobbying of another member state it will pass again with an aim to save the face of our tyrant neighbor vis-a-vis his own people. Believe me that option will not lead to any positive results,” said Sarkisian.

“Either common sense and the desire for peace will have the upper hand, or the silent encouragement of xenophobia will deepen the war rhetoric and deadly provocations so easily brandished by Azerbaijan, which does not care about its soldiers’ lives and becomes encouraged with such statements, will continue,” added Sarkisian.

Sarkisian’s comments on Karabakh were an apparent reference to promises made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev while visiting the latter in Baku on Wednesday. Sources indicate that Turkey is preparing a pro-Azebraijani document that it hopes will be supported by other NATO member-states.

Erdogan told Aliyev in Baku that Turkey will demand the fulfillment of promises given to Azerbaijan regarding the region at the NATO summit. Erdogan stated that the fulfillment of the so-called promises is not a favor but a right for Azerbaijan.

Erdogan said that he would not abandon Azerbaijan and will use its influence in the international community to advance Baku’s agenda and show its “determination on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue at the [NATO] summit.

“Let our brotherhood walk to the future by becoming strong,” said Erdogan in Baku adding that relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey is the “legacy of these countries ancestors.”

In his remarks Sarkisian also discussed Armenia’s role and effort in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and thanked Germany for its cooperation on that front.

Sarkisian outlined that Armenia has tripled the number of its troops in Afghanistan in July 2011.

“Over the past years Armenia has gained invaluable experience. I would specially emphasize Armenia’s effective cooperation with Germany, which is the best example of cooperation between NATO member and partner countries,” added Sarkisian.

Sarkisian and his delegation meet with French President Francois Hollande in Wales

Sarkisian meets with France’s Hollande
On the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Wales, Sarkisian met with French President Francois Hollande on Thursday.

The two leaders touched on issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, ahead of proposed meeting by Hollande, which will bring Sarkisian and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev back to the negotiating table.

The date for that meeting has not been set, but Sarkisian and Aliyev met with US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday in Newport.

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Comments 14

  1. Hratch says:
    8 years ago

    They’re not going to take Mr. Sarkisian seriously if he continues to gloss over Mother Russia’s involvement in region and particularly the selling of billions of dollars worth of sophisticated weapons to the Azeris.

    Reply
    • Armanen says:
      8 years ago

      More like Armenia shouldn’t take the West seriously which is always involved in some form of imperialism. This time cultural. Turkey is a NATO member, this means NATO will fight against Armenia when and if war breaks out to liberate Western Armenia. I wonder who’s side you’ll be on…

      Reply
    • GeorgeMardig says:
      8 years ago

      Without Russia there wouldn’t be Armenia.

      Reply
  2. GB says:
    8 years ago

    Less impressive Muslim Turkey in NATO will do anything to make South Caucasus frozen conflicts as important as Ukraine, but I wonder who will listen to this Neo-Ottoman Islamist Sultan!

    Reply
  3. Arn.Sweden. says:
    8 years ago

    Bevere of NATO and the Turks !.

    NATO will side with the Turks if a War breaks out !

    Arn.Sweden.

    Reply
    • Arn.Sweden. says:
      8 years ago

      http://asbarez.com/126051/armenia-must-prepare-for-possibility-of-war/

      Arn.Sweden.

      Reply
  4. Lus says:
    8 years ago

    President Sarkissian is a brilliant diplomat.

    Reply
    • GeorgeMardig says:
      8 years ago

      I agree

      Reply
  5. Avetis says:
    8 years ago

    Breaking news! Armenia has been blockaded by NATO for the past twenty years! Think about that and in doing so remember Libya: another nation utterly destroyed by NATO’s forces of freedom and democracy.

    Reply
    • Mabuballah says:
      8 years ago

      Another country (much) more worthy of recollection is Serbia. After NATO tore up its charter and trashed both the Geneva Convention and the UN Charter in destabilizing and destroying Yugoslavia and Serbia in particular, it then proceeded to commit the same kind of cultural genocide that it now intends for Armenia as it unarguably and forcibly committed ethnic cleansing and destroying Serbia economically. Now it supports the EU in strangling Serbia in order to Germanize it in a manner just slightly more subtle than with Turkey and Azerbaijan’s “Turkification” process.
      Now to top it off, NATO has coddled Armenia into lending its precious military support for KFOR in its illegal and uncalled-for occupation of the sovereign Serbian territory of Kosovo. Heaping atrocity upon atrocity, Azerbaijan has now successfully courted the military cooperation and support of the quisling Serbian government in Belgrade. When will the world wake up?

      Reply
  6. Ararat says:
    8 years ago

    1. NATO = Turkey’s Pimp

    2. Turkey = Azerbaijan’s Pimp

    3. Azerbaijan = Turkey’s Prostitute

    Reply
  7. GeorgeMardig says:
    8 years ago

    The West is up for sale, Money talks Bsht walks

    Reply
  8. zarkim says:
    8 years ago

    Americans/allies and NATO used to hate terrorists. They used to look for any excuse (Even if they had to invent one) to punish terrorists. Now they have categorised terrorists as GOOD terrorists and BAD terrorists. For example al-qaeda is a good terrorist.
    .
    Turkish terrorists committed crimes against humanity in KESSAB. Are Turkish terrorist GOOD terrorists or BAD? NATO thins they are GOOD.

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