Arman Melikyan: Azeri State Should Pay Penalty
Each next phase of development of the conflict make search for peaceful solutions more complicated. If in 1988 Armenians of Karabakh still could discuss the question of enhancing their autonomy status to the level of autonomous republic, at the moment of concluding the cease-fire in 1994 no one in Karabakh could think of autonomous status within Azerbaijan, NKR President's Foreign Policy Advisor Arman Melikyan stated during scientific and practical conference titled Stability Models in the Black Sea/Caucasus Region. In his words, each new attempt of the Azeri authorities to solve the issue from the position of force posed the question of securing the people and guaranteeing its survival before the NKR. «On the other hand, it is apparent that Azeri authorities did not search for political solutions to forced political demands of Nagorno Karabakh. They tried to solve the issue by force, for which the Azeri state should pay penalty and should recognize its responsibility for sufferings of hundreds of thousand people and the state - the NKR,» Melikyan underscored.
The NKR President's Advisor believes that recognition of Karabakh's independence by Azerbaijan will be the beginning of the way to reconciliation. «Azeri authorities have to pay compensations to Armenian refugees, as well as internally displaced Azeris. Some territories controlled by the NKR Defense Army today play the role of a security belt. After a reasonable period of time if the Azeri party does not undertake those actions, the aforementioned territories, along with their security function, may also become a resource for compensation to Armenian refugees and a place for their re-settlement, as citizens of the former Azerbaijani SSR they have the right to settle in any of its parts they prefer and where their rights - first of all that to life - are guaranteed,» he said.
Arman Melikyan also remarked that use of force should be censured and punished, as full development of not only Azerbaijan and Karabakh, but also entire the Black Sea/Caucasus region is not possible without that.
The NKR President's Advisor believes that recognition of Karabakh's independence by Azerbaijan will be the beginning of the way to reconciliation. «Azeri authorities have to pay compensations to Armenian refugees, as well as internally displaced Azeris. Some territories controlled by the NKR Defense Army today play the role of a security belt. After a reasonable period of time if the Azeri party does not undertake those actions, the aforementioned territories, along with their security function, may also become a resource for compensation to Armenian refugees and a place for their re-settlement, as citizens of the former Azerbaijani SSR they have the right to settle in any of its parts they prefer and where their rights - first of all that to life - are guaranteed,» he said.
Arman Melikyan also remarked that use of force should be censured and punished, as full development of not only Azerbaijan and Karabakh, but also entire the Black Sea/Caucasus region is not possible without that.
