‘Position of Azerbaijan in Karabakh conflict meets position of world community’

The document of the US Congress on foreign assistance for 2012 for the first time calls for assistance to conflict parties in relation to Nagorno Karabakh.

The statement came from spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev.

“Azerbaijanis, who because refugees and displaced persons are the direct victims of this conflict and victims of ethnic cleansing held by the Armenian leadership against the Azerbaijani population”, he said.

According to Abdullayev, it proves that the position of Azerbaijan in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict meets the position of the world community, here the US position.

On Wednesday the Senate and House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a document on allocation of financial aid to foreign states for 2012.

The aid to Armenia was set at $40m and to Azerbaijan at $16.6m as a result. Meanwhile, the US lawmakers urged the sides for the peaceful settlement of the conflict and urged the White house to parity in provision of military assistance to the conflict parties-Armenia and Azerbaijan”.

The amount allocated to the separatist regime of Nagorno Karabakh is not fixed in the document. It was only noted that it will be provided ‘on the levels, corresponding to previous years’.

The level of mutual expenses of the United States for assistance to Nagorno Karabakh made about $2m.

Another part of the document speaks of the support to trust building measures.

Abdullayev noted that Azerbaijan’s stance in this issue has always aimed to support such measures and establish intercommunity dialogue between Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of the Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

“The intercommunication dialogue is a natural component of the trust building measures. However, the occupation of Azerbaijani lands and presence of Armenian soldiers there make it impossible to carry out any measures to raise trust in these areas”, he said. In fact it is impossible to carry out trust building measures under pressure”.

The process cannot proceed without withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied lands, Abdullayev said.

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh remains unsettled for already 20 years. Mediation efforts of the Minsk Group co-chairs are also ineffective.

Four resolutions of the UN Security Council on liberation of the Karabakh region and adjacent areas are still not fulfilled by Armenia.

As a result, 20% of Azerbaijani lands are still under occupation by the Armenian armed forces.

Source: News.AZ
URL: http://www.news.az/articles/karabakh/51547

Posted by admin December 2011

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