“A Breakthrough of the Blockade of Stepanakert: 25 years later”: an international forum was organized on this subject which was attended by local and foreign experts. Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, in an interview with journalists, in response to the question why an emergency arose to analyze the incidents of 1992, replied that this emergency always existed as Azerbaijan is trying to present the situation totally differently, “A country with which the human rights are simply incompatible … terror is carrying out at the state level. The April events showed that what started in the 90s is still continued.”
He said that Azerbaijan has not changed for years, it sees only a forced solution, is implementing a genocidal politics, and does everything to wreck the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh. To the question that after the April war the experts of the sphere were assuring that we should use this in the negotiating process, so what was done in the meantime, and how we are coming out of this situation, Shavarsh Kocharyan replied, “The negotiation process is just an imitation for Azerbaijan which it openly says.”
According to Shavarsh Kocharyan, the international community already realizes very well that one side is not ready for any concessions, moreover, setting the Karabakh issue aside, openly declares its ambitions over the territories of Armenia, saying that they are historically Azerbaijani lands, which is ridiculous, “The situation shows that the negotiation process is nowadays one of the missions of the co-chairs, one of these missions is the maintenance of this fragile ceasefire and the blockade of resumption of new hostilities which is also in doubt given the Azerbaijan’s statements.”
We were curious about the possibility of returning Karabakh to the negotiation table and asked whether there is such a possibility, Shavarsh Kocharyan replied, “Let’s get this straightened, on the one hand, the fact that Azerbaijan is doing everything to hamper the participation of Karabakh, it is the litmus paper, which shows that Azerbaijan never intended to the negotiation settlement of the problem.” Shavarsh Kocharyan announced that certainly, no question can be resolved and moves to make without the Karabakh involvements, this is also evident for the co-chairs.
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To the question that Mammadyarov was talking about the plan discussed with Lavrov, so how you can interpret this, Shavarsh Kocharyan replied, “Mammadyarov has generally made so many lies from Baku that I do not even want to interpret. He is talking about a plan, if there is a settlement plan, it does not matter what plan it is, however, their president says that it is their internal affair, so what are we talking about.”
