Kazakh FM says OSCE MG’s agreements enough to resolve Karabakh conflict.
Gunay Camal
Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov does not see necessity for attracting new negotiators to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
It is enough to implement the OSCE Minsk Group’s agreements to resolve the conflict, Ria Novosti reported citing Idrissov as saying.
"The special OSCE Minsk Group, co-chaired by Russia, France and the U.S., was established,” he said at the briefing in Astana. “I think there is no need to search for new mediators in resolving the conflict."
Peace talks over the long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that emerged over Armenia’s territorial claims against Azerbaijan are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles.
However, as Armenia continues to follow non-constructive position, the negotiations have been largely fruitless so far despite the efforts of the co-chair countries over 20 years.
Idrissov went on to say that the principles of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement have been clearly set out as part of the OSCE Minsk Group, adding that it is necessary to implement the agreements.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.
Despite the official ceasefire, each year the conflict becomes a cause of the deaths of dozens of civilians and military. The latest outbreak of violence on the contact proved that it is impossible to resolve the conflict by keeping a status quo.
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