Kiro Manoyan: final deal on Karabakh possible within several years
If adopted, the basic principles of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution may be promulgated in Armenia and NKR, ARF Bureau's Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office Director said.
"ARF Dashnaktsutyun's stand on the issue is as follows: the conflict should be resolved via talks, a peaceful agreement should be signed, any mutual concessions should be balanced and equal, NKR should participate in talks as a party to conflict, NKR's future status should be determined, Karabakh territories occupied by Azerbaijan should be returned, the problem of refugees should be resolved," Kiro Manoyan told a news conference today.
The Co-chairs are not in a hurry to resolve the conflict, according to him. "The declaration signed by Foreign Minister of the OSCE member countries clearly states that an agreement on basic principles will be concluded within several months. So, No considerable changes are expected in the Karabakh process unless the final agreement is sealed," he said.
Foreign Ministers of France, Russia, and the United States - the Co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group - issued December 3 a joint declaration of the on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which says,
"We, the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group's Co-Chair countries - France, Russia, and the United States - call on the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to build on the positive momentum established during the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on November 2, 2008. The Moscow Declaration signed that same day opened a new and promising phase in our shared endeavor to expand peace in the South Caucasus. In that declaration, the Presidents reaffirm their commitment to advancing a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the framework of the Basic Principles developed by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs in collaboration with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis of their proposals advanced last year in Madrid.
We call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to finalize the Basic Principles in coming months, and then begin drafting a comprehensive peace settlement as outlined by those agreed principles. In keeping with the Moscow Declaration, we call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to develop confidence-building measures, beginning with pulling back snipers from the Line of Contact to save lives of innocent civilians and soldiers as our mediators already proposed to the sides at the highest level during the last visit mid November. It is urgent for the parties to work with each other, the Co-Chairs, and the Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office to stabilize the ceasefire through this and other measures. We reiterate our firm view that there is no military solution to the conflict and call on the parties to recommit to a peaceful resolution."
"ARF Dashnaktsutyun's stand on the issue is as follows: the conflict should be resolved via talks, a peaceful agreement should be signed, any mutual concessions should be balanced and equal, NKR should participate in talks as a party to conflict, NKR's future status should be determined, Karabakh territories occupied by Azerbaijan should be returned, the problem of refugees should be resolved," Kiro Manoyan told a news conference today.
The Co-chairs are not in a hurry to resolve the conflict, according to him. "The declaration signed by Foreign Minister of the OSCE member countries clearly states that an agreement on basic principles will be concluded within several months. So, No considerable changes are expected in the Karabakh process unless the final agreement is sealed," he said.
Foreign Ministers of France, Russia, and the United States - the Co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group - issued December 3 a joint declaration of the on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which says,
"We, the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group's Co-Chair countries - France, Russia, and the United States - call on the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to build on the positive momentum established during the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on November 2, 2008. The Moscow Declaration signed that same day opened a new and promising phase in our shared endeavor to expand peace in the South Caucasus. In that declaration, the Presidents reaffirm their commitment to advancing a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the framework of the Basic Principles developed by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs in collaboration with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis of their proposals advanced last year in Madrid.
We call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to finalize the Basic Principles in coming months, and then begin drafting a comprehensive peace settlement as outlined by those agreed principles. In keeping with the Moscow Declaration, we call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to develop confidence-building measures, beginning with pulling back snipers from the Line of Contact to save lives of innocent civilians and soldiers as our mediators already proposed to the sides at the highest level during the last visit mid November. It is urgent for the parties to work with each other, the Co-Chairs, and the Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office to stabilize the ceasefire through this and other measures. We reiterate our firm view that there is no military solution to the conflict and call on the parties to recommit to a peaceful resolution."
