Armenia to continue efforts in OSCE Minsk Group to seek for Karabakh conflict peaceful settlement - Foreign Ministry
YEREVAN. Aug 24 (Interfax) - Yerevan will continue efforts with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs (Russia, the United States and France) towards a peaceful settlement of confrontation in Karabakh, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said.
"Armenia will consistently continue joint efforts with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries [Russia, the United States and France] for an exclusively peaceful settlement of Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict," the Armenian Foreign Ministry press service quoted Nalbandian as saying on Thursday.
The elements of settlement revealed by U.S. Minsk Group co-chair Richard Hoagland reflect the suppositions in five statements issued by the mediating countries, but "with certain inaccuracies and omissions," the minister also said.
"The position on conflict settlement is expressed not via separate commentaries, but via joint proposals and statements issued by the mediating countries. In his commentary Hoagland began naming the elements by mentioning a decision on the Nagorno-Karabakh's final legal status via the expression of will having the mandatory legal force, including for Azerbaijan," Nalbandian said.
Baku "avoids the implementation of the agreements previously reached both on the problem settlement process and the confidence-building measures," he also said.
"The statement issued by the co-chairing countries' foreign ministers in Hamburg again urged to implement the agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg. As was known, Armenia and Artsakh [unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh] repeatedly stated their willingness to implement them, while Azerbaijan refuses from the obligations it assumed," Nalbandian said.