The absence of the Armenian-Azeri relations is conditioned by the unsettled Nagorno Karabakh conflict, says the report titled "Directions of National Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia" issued by Secretary at the National Security Council at the RA President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan. "The frozen Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Azerbaijani policy on the issue jeopardize Armenia's security. Azerbaijan's militaristic policy targeted at settlement of the conflict via achievement of military advantage over Armenia is a direct threat for Armenia's security. Such policy is pregnant with destabilization in the region," the report notes. Besides, it says, the existence of permanent military threat impedes the conduction of reforms in the defense sector and forces to armament race. Moreover, Baku continually incites the Azeri people to hatred towards Armenians. Such conduct is inadmissible for a country forming a system of European values and proves that these principles are proclaimed by the Azerbaijani authorities for show only. Thus the necessity of providing Armenia's military security demands high efficiency of the RA Armed forces, whose principal tasks are security of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, inviolability of borders and repulse of any aggression. The document says Azerbaijan's attempts to transfer the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict from the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group to the UN, Council of Europe or NATO also create a threat.

These threats are accompanied by misinforming activities carried out by the Azerbaijani propaganda machine, which brings benefit to Azerbaijan within the international organizations not familiarized with the core of the problem. The OSCE Minsk Group presented by Russia, the U.S. and France maximally reflects the correlation on forces showing interest in the regional processes. Besides, the document says, these three co-chair states are the permanent members of the UN Security Council and it's hardly possible to imagine a worthier format of mediation. Armenia sees the settlement of the Karabakh problem within the OSCE Minsk Group, via concessions and proceeding from the necessity of physical guarantee of Armenians of Karabakh, international guarantees, overland border with Armenia, non-resumption of war as well as creation of conditions essential for its sustainable development. Armenia will adopt the variants of settlement excluding Karabakh's subordination to Azerbaijan or enclave existence of Karabakh. All the possible concessions should be made with maintenance of these principles.