May 27, 2013 - 15:26 AMT
Azeri MP offers to involve NATO in Karabakh settlement

NATO possesses powers to monitor all of the ingoing regional and international processes, member of Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis said.

In this context, Zahid Orudzh attached importance to the institution’s involvement in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stressing the need to intensify ties with NATO.

“Despite our membership in Non-Aligned Movement, North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the current security format. We will have to intensify efforts to deepen ties with NATO, in case of Baku’s decision against joining Russia-formed military blocs,” he said.

“NATO is against open intervention in regional problems, well aware of those issues. Documents protecting Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity were adopted during the institutions’ summits in Washington and Istanbul. Any agreement on Karabakh issue must enter into force with the help of a certain institution,” Orudzh said, adding that OSCE lacks a military institution, according to Trend.