Yuri Merzlyakov: "Principles of Nagorno Gabaragh conflict settlement may become a precedent for other conflicts in the world"

 "We consider that the principle of the settlement of Nagorno Garabagh conflict is a midpoint between the principles of national determination and the territorial integrity of the country", Russian co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov told a press conference held in Baku by results of the visit of the co-chairmen to the region.

He noted that the approach of the co-chairmen to the basic principles relies on three of ten principles, fixed in the Helsinki final act of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has been transformed into the OSCE-the principle of territorial integrity; equality of peoples and principle of self-determination; non-appliance of force or threat of force.

At the same time, he refused to comment on how the co-chairmen would be able to combine these principles.

"We are not able to call a precedent for such settlement of the conflict in the world. But I think, the resolution of the Garabagh conflict may become a precedent for other conflicts", he said.

/Day.Az/