01/12/2010 11:04
France resolute about contributing to NK settlement
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in his speech at the OSCE summit said that NK conflict should be settled based on the principles and elements mentioned in the statements of Presidents of US, Russia and France in l'Aquila and Muskoka. They are a whole, and are indivisible, Aysor.am correspondent reports from Astana.
Fillon stressed that France is resolute about assisting the sides in peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
The Nagorno-Karabakh (armed) conflict broke out back in 1991, when, subsequent to the demand for self-determination of the Nagorno-Karabakh people, Azerbaijani authorities attempted to resolve the issue through ethnic cleansings, carried out by Soviet security forces (KGB special units) under the pretext of the implementation of the passport regime and by launching of large-scale military operations, which left thousands dead and caused considerable material damage. A cease-fire agreement was established in 1994. Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are being conducted under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen (Russia, USA, France) and on the basis of their Madrid proposals, presented in November, 2007.
Azerbaijan has not yet implemented the 4 resolutions of the UN Security Council adopted in 1993, by continuing to provoke arms race in the region and openly violating on of the basic principles of the international law non-use of force or threat of force.