SDHK says co-chair countries made anti-Armenian statement
The United States, France and Russia Saturday pledged to support Armenia and Azerbaijan as they try to agree basic principles for settling a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
They said both sides had made a significant step in accepting the overall framework of a deal and now needed to take the next step and complete the work on the basic principles to enable the drafting of a peace agreement.
The Social Democratic Hunchakian Party (SDHK) commends the statement of Presidents Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev on the Karabakh issue.
Today the party has issued a statement which reads,
1. Peace and security in the region are beneficial not only to the peoples of Armenia and Azerbaijan but also to the whole region and superpowers. Anyway, the party thinks that the proposals lead to a war.
2. The OSCE MG co-chair countries made an anti-Armenian proposal full of more perils than the controversial Madrid Principles.
3. The superpowers again showed preference to Baku's black oil than to the norms of international law.
4. The Co-Chair countries apply double standards in the international law. We are more than convinced that they would not have made the same proposals in view of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as Kosovo conflicts.
5. In the given situation Armenian authorities are to conduct public discussions and hold a referendum to know the opinion of the Armenian people before signing any document.
