Friday, November 17 2017 14:58

ArmInfo.Negotiations on the coordination of the final declaration of the Eastern Partnership summit of the EU are continuing, and it is premature to make any  statements. On November 17, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated at a joint news conference with Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloisio Nunes Ferreira.

"You know, we should not talk about the differences between Armenia  and Azerbaijan on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on  the issue, but we know about the different approaches of Azerbaijan  and the EU, Azerbaijan and the international community. The EU's  position on the Karabakh conflict settlement has always been  unchanged and aimed at promoting the approaches and efforts of the  OSCE Minsk Group's mediating countries. This is a deliberate and  sufficiently informed approach, so as not to harm, but to facilitate  the settlement of the issue.

 To promote the mediators' approaches and exclusively peaceful  settlement of the conflict .This EU position has not changed .As for  the final declaration, the negotiations continue. they are not  finished, it is premature to talk about anything, there are still  several days, "Nalbandian concluded.  As it became known earlier, the  final declaration of the Eastern Partnership summit, which will be  held on November 24 in Brussels, again found itself at a deadlock  because of the Karabakh problem. It became known that until now  official Yerevan and Baku did not agree on language related to the  conflict, while the rest of the text of the document is fully  coordinated. On November 16, the ambassadors of all 28 EU member  states agreed the entire declaration, except for one paragraph that  deals with regional conflicts. The EU member states have missed this  part, as Armenia and Azerbaijan want to include in the text the  language relating to Nagorno-Karabakh, which clearly contradict each  other. In fact, the declaration is ready, and only Armenia and  Azerbaijan are still fighting for wording concerning Karabakh.

It should be noted that two years ago, again due to disagreements  over the Karabakh issue, the adoption of the declaration of the Riga  Summit of the EaP was in jeopardy. Azerbaijani President Ilham  Aliyev, unable to promote the preferred language for Baku, refused to  participate in the summit, and the Foreign Minister of this country  Elmar Mammadyarov for several hours did not sign the declaration and  even left the meeting room, leaving the EU leaders in uncertainty.