Thursday, August 24 2017 20:10

ArmInfo.The elements voiced by  the American co-chairman Richard Hoagland do not contain anything new  and are a paraphrase of the Madrid principles that have been  repeatedly published. Artsakh Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan told  Artsakh Public Television.

According to the foreign minister, the position of Artsakh regarding  such proposals is known and remains unchanged. "Any model of the  settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, if it is called to  ensure a stable and long-term peace, is impossible without the full  participation of the Artsakh party at all stages of the negotiation  process and can not fail to take into account the existing  realities," Mirzoyan said.

According to the minister, the April war in 2016 clearly demonstrated  that the approaches detached from reality are dangerous and can  create conditions for unpredictable processes. Today, in his opinion,  first of all, it is necessary to take consistent steps to ensure the  irreversibility of the peace process and the implementation of the  agreements reached, in particular, on the implementation of  mechanisms for investigating cease-fire violations. "Unrealized  agreements become ballast and prevent the possibility of positive  progress in the negotiations," Karen Mirzoyan summed up.

On the eve, late at night, the leaving US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk  Group, Richard Hoagland (who will be replaced by Charge d'Affaires at  the US Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, Andrew  Chauffer), published 6 elements on the settlement of the Karabakh  conflict. According to the report, taking into account the complex  history of the Karabakh conflict sides should in the future to fix  its final legal status on the basis of consensus and legally binding  expression of will. And before that territory within the  administrative borders of the former Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous and  not under the control of Baku must obtain a temporary status, which,  at a minimum, provides guarantees of security and sovereignty.

The "occupied territories" around Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the  statement, should be transferred under the control of Baku. There can  not be any settlement without taking into account Azerbaijan's  sovereignty, the report says. "The power of Azerbaijan over these  territories should be restored," the text says.

The next item is discussed the creation of a land corridor between  Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, which should be "wide enough" for the  safe transport, but can not occupy the entire territory of Lachin  region.

A long-term settlement should ensure the right of all forcibly  resettled and refugees to places of early residence, the statement  said.

And the last point is negotiating the creation of international  security guarantees, which includes a long- term settlement. These  guarantees, according to the statement, should include peacekeeping  operations.  "There is no scenario in which the world could be  achieved without a well-organized peacekeeping activities, enjoying  the confidence of all parties," said in a statement.