Azerbaijani MFA: “Kosovo conflict is unique”
The Kosovo conflict is unique, as are all conflicts, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said today.
In regard to an advisory opinion on Kosovo announced yesterday by the U.N. International Court, Polukhov said that the statement concerns Kosovo alone and has nothing to do with the Karabakh conflict.
He said that the decision of the Hague court on Kosovo's independence does not violate international law.
The settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is taking place under an OSCE mandate within the Minsk Group.
Azerbaijan is negotiating the conflict's resolution in this format, Azerbaijani official said.
Armenian political analyst Hmayak Hovhannisyan thinks that the conflicts of Karabakh and Kosovo have many similarities and are based on cultural and religious differences.
The similarities are so obvious that it is a mere crime to neglect them, he said.
The resolution of the Hague court is a trump card for Armenia but we must make use of this precedent.
