“OSCE MINSK GROUP FORMAT DEFECTIVE AND SENSELESS”
Support A1+!“Nothing can be said on the conflict settlement process until the Nagorno-Karabakh status is not clarified”, announced Arkadi Ghukasyan, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh during the meeting with Miguel Angel Moratinos, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Goran Lennmarker, the OSCE PA President and with the other members of the delegation. Mr Ghukasyan does not have any particular expectation form the presidents’ meeting.
Arkadi Ghukasyan informed that during the all meetings they raised the question of returning Nagorno-Karabakh into the negotiation process and stated: “This format of the OSCE Minsk Group is defective and not logical. The destiny of Karabakh people cannot be decided without Karabakh’s participation”. He noted that during the 1994-97 Summit in Brussels an agreement was signed by which the official negotiating parties were Armenia, Karabakh and Azerbaijan. “Let Spain and Portuguese negotiate, I only wish Karabakh to be recognized as an independent state”. Mr Ghukasyan also pointed that not always Armenia presented Karabakh’s approach during the meetings.
“Position of Karabakh is definite; we may even talk on the liberated territories but after the solution of Karabakh status only”. Mr Ghukasyan also stated that no agreement would be signed without the nation’s approval. He also mentioned: “I do not think the Serge Sargsyan is for the returning the territories. If we get a status solution, case we may go to compromises”.
