BAKU AGAINST EU SUGGESTION
Support A1+!Official Baku turned down yesterday’s suggestion made by Peter Semneby, EU special representative in South Caucasus. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Baku replied that adoption of relationships with Nagorno Karabakh was impossible.
”Both Armenian and Azerbaijan inhabitants in Nagorno Karabakh are citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Therefore the relationships between them should be equal to that with other regions of the country, as far as in case of Nagorno Karabakh a higher autonomy adoption is concerned. It means, that the territory will have a special status in Azerbaijan,” claimed Tair Taghizade, head of Press Service of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan.
He also mentioned that Azerbaijan had claimed several times that the relations would reestablish if some components of the conflict were fulfilled.
“We cannot adopt relations and reestablish trust only with Nagorno Karabakh region, unless the conflict resolution demands are carried out. The latter issues are the disarmament of adjacent areas, mine clearing of means of communication, the return of refugees. Only afterwards will trust establishment programs start,” stated the representative of the Minisrty of Foreign Affairs in Azerbaijan.
