“Unfortunately, the recent Azerbaijani lobbying in the European institutions has been intensified, and, apparently, we concede to Azerbaijan”,- said ARF faction secretary Aghvan Vardanyan in the interview with Aravot.am adding that we must be careful to defend our interests. The matter is about the resolution adopted at the European Parliament plenary session, last night, in which the text regarding NKR says that the EU should be more actively involved in the peaceful solution of conflicts, noting that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution must comply with 4 resolutions of the UN Security Council 1993, and the OSCE Minsk Group fundamental principles enshrined in 2009 by L’Aquila joint statement.
To recall that 4 resolution of the United Nations Security Council 1993 are calling for withdrawal of troops from Qelbajar, Agdam and other “occupied” territories. L’Aquila’s statement, in its turn, is based on the Madrid principles, and calls for return of territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, providing an interim status to Nagorno-Karabakh with guarantees for security and self-governance, to open a corridor connecting Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, in the future, to determine the status of Nagorno-Karabakh through the expression of will with a binding legal force, to consider return of displaced population and refugees to their former places of residence, and provide international security guarantees, by application of peacekeeping operations. Immediately after the adoption of the resolution, in the records of different representatives of the ruling Republican party and RA Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, it was stated that in the same document a reference is made to documents that contradict each other and have no connection with each other.
It is our observation that the European Parliament after the President of Armenia’s statement of joining the Customs Union, recalled resolutions that during these years Azerbaijan has made a flag in its hands, whether it means that, in the relations with Armenia, Europe will use the issue of NKR as a bludgeon, ARF secretary said that it is difficult to directly and unequivocally connect it with Armenia’s desire of joining the Customs Union. But the matter that Armenian definitely concedes Azerbaijan in lobbying, which intensifies its position year by year is definite. Our interlocutor, of course, does not rule out the Azerbaijan is trying to use this phase of Armenia’s joining the Customs Union for adopting new resolutions against Armenia by using the European MPs who are guided by double standards or other personal interests. The reaction of the authorities of Armenia merely on the level of statements, Aghvan Vardanyan does not consider it adequate. According to him, we should lead a systematic and consistent work, and be able to present the essence of the problem, because very one-sided resolutions are adopted by different international organizations and those bypassing the essence of NKR problem.
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