NO FINAL SETTLEMENT WILL BE REACHED ON KARABAKH CONFLICT AS NKR DOESN’T PARTICIPATE IN NEGOTIATIONS The interview of the NKR president Bako Sahakyan given to “Freedom” radio station
All the attempts to settle the Karabakh conflict without participation of its main party – Nagorno-Karabakh, are not sufficient. This was announced by the NKR President Bako Sahakyan in his interview given to “Freedom” radio station while commenting on Armenian-Azerbaijani-Russian declaration on the Karabakh conflict settlement.
“The fact that the international community, the countries of the region, mediators try to have influence and bring the issue to its logical end is of course welcomed. It is the matter of dialogue and the necessity of this dialogue has been accentuated in our announcements through all these years. It goes without saying that any dialogue has positive influence on the conflict settlement, but we have at the same time mentioned and go on doing so that the dialogue and all the attempts made by the Minsk Group and Russia in particular are insufficient without the NKR’s participation,” mentioned the president. To the question what is done for Karabakh to become a negotiating party, B. Sahalyan announced that at every meeting, especially with the Minsk Group co-chairmen “We ask and, why not, claim for them to use their power and restore the distorted format, realize the decision of the Budapest summit according to which the NKR is a full party of negotiations.”
B.Sahakyan mentioned that Armenia’s authorities also worked in this direction. “We welcome the negotiation process in the framework of the Minsk group, however, the issue will not be settled once and forever because the NKR doesn’t participate in negotiations,” mentioned the president. To the question which are the maximum concessions the NKR is ready to make taking into account the fact that the Moscow declaration has confirmed that the negotiations are to be grounded on Madrid principles implying certain concessions, Sahakyan answered that for the NKR it was important participation in the negotiation process after which it would be possible to discuss all the package of suggestions. “We’ve got certain standpoints, but being deprived of participating in negotiations we can not produce them…we realize that all the principles are to be first of all agreed with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic authorities.” In that way Sahakyan reacted on possible disposal of peace-makers in the Karabkh conflict zone. “As long as we are the conflicting party, all the answers to such questions are of declarative character.”
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