Parliamentarian: Artsakh will never be part of Azerbaijan

At the Astana summit of OSCE Ilham Aliyev will once again accept that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict should be resolved peacefully, yet later he will again try to reject peaceful settlement, member of RPA parliamentary faction Gagik Melikyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

“He will again accept all norms of the international law to be a basis for the Nagorno Karabakh settlement – self-determination of peoples, non-use of force and territorial integrity. However, the principle of territorial integrity does not relate to the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Nagorno Karabakh has never been part of independent Azerbaijan and will never be part of it. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will never see Nagorno Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.”

As to cases of violation of ceasefire regime or provocations by Azerbaijan, the parliamentarian said they have considerably decreased after Azerbaijani parliamentary elections.