Azerbaijani MP says activities of OSCE MG co-chairs are failure

“Almaty meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers demonstrated that the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are far from coordinating positions on a way to resolve this problem,” member of the Azerbaijani Parliament Fazil Mustafa said commenting on a recent meeting between the Azerbaijan and Armenian FMs on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Almaty.

The MP says the statement made by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs following the foreign ministers’ meeting once again testifies to insincerity mediators in the negotiations.

“It is obvious that mediators are looking for preferences for Armenia. Despite all attempts to make their activities to seem impartial, the co-chairs demonstrated an anti-Azerbaijani stance. Thus, Armenia got an incentive to continue the policy of delaying the settlement of the Karabakh conflict,” the MP added.

What remains for Azerbaijan to do is to toughen its stance in talks, the MP said.
 
"It is interesting that before the talks the Azerbaijani side said liberation of some occupied regions have been almost settled while Armenia says that liberation of territories is not discussed at all. The situation at the talks is very easy to change, and it does not meet Azerbaijan’s interests. So, the current situation forces Azerbaijan to conduct a more assertive policy in the negotiations in respect to mediators and Armenia," Mustafa noted.

The MP noted that in foreseeable future he does not expect the Armenian side to take a move that would lead to an advance in the talks. In his view, the recent statement by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs showed a lack of consistency in the actions of co-chair countries’ presidents.

"Co-chairs’ attempts to force Azerbaijan to agree to a hold referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh is a challenge to the national interests of our country.  How co-chairs may make claims against Azerbaijan at a time when Armenia does not accept updated Madrid principles prepared by them?”

“From this perspective, the co-chairs of OSCE Minsk should first define their own positions. Either the leaders of Russia, France and the U.S. must put real, effective pressure on Armenia, so that Armenia adopts the principles set forth in the statement by the presidents of these countries, or co-chair countries should admit their failure as mediators in the conflict resolution,” Mustafa noted.


/Day.Az/