Nalbandyan pinpointed the one country
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan spoke at the 17th sitting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens. In his speech, Minister Nalbandyan touched upon issues on the OSCE agenda and the need to improve security in Europe, attaching importance to the development of a new acceptable, equal and comprehensive system of security in Europe.
The Armenian Foreign Minister drew the attention of the OSCE-member countries' foreign ministers to Azerbaijan's violations of the international commitments to limit the use of arms, the frequent war-like declarations and violating the principle of not applying force or using the threat of force, which is one of the basic principles of international law.
Minister Nalbandyan also touched upon the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations and attached importance to the ratification of the Turkey-Armenia Protocols. According to the Minister, the groundless delay of the process and setting preconditions, including attempts to tie the normalization with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, may hurt both processes.
The Armenian Foreign Minister expressed gratitude to the international community for its unreserved support in the process of normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations. Edward Nalbandyan underlined that all countries of the world expressed their support for the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, except Azerbaijan. The latter is against the normalization of relations and this goes against the international community and the basic principles of the OSCE.
