ArmInfo. It seems that official Baku is trying to turn the negotiations into an endless process in the hope that it will help to postpone the inevitable recognition of the Artsakh Republic by the international community as an independent state. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Artsakh Republic, Masis Mailyan, stated this in an interview with the Azat Artsakh newspaper.According to him, for this purpose, the Azerbaijani authorities are trying in every way to distort the essence of the conflict, to present it as a territorial or intercommunal one.
In fact, Azerbaijani refugees from Artsakh have become an instrument for Azerbaijan to solve its foreign policy tasks."First of all, it should be noted that the issue of restorationtripartite negotiation format is the most accurateindicator of the readiness of official Baku to realprogress in the peace process of the Azerbaijani-Karabakhconflict. This belief is based on the indisputable fact that the tripartite negotiation format was the most productive. Consequently, opposition to the restoration of the most effective format of negotiations, in our opinion, is tantamount to artificially delaying the settlement process, "the minister noted.He also stressed that the question of refugees and IDPs will not have a specific content until the answer to the main question is about the responsibility of the parties to those who as a result of the conflict lost their right to live and develop freely in their native land.
"The Azerbaijan SSR, as the initiator republic of the mass enforced exodus of its Armenian citizens, clearly demonstrated its position towards this category of persons. Neither the former AzSSR, nor the current Azerbaijan Republic took steps towards recognizing their own political and legal obligations to their former citizens and did not assume any moral or material responsibility for their actions. None of the more than 400 thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, having left this country under sredstvenno threatened his life, has not received compensation, with all the material and material and moral losses ", - said Mayilian.
The Minister also stated that, in accordance with the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the right to legal protection and reparation for victims of grave violations of international human rights standards and serious violations of international humanitarian law, victims of such violations should be provided with full and effective reparation, which includes in itself restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition of what happened. "Compensation should be provided for any economically assessable damage in the prescribed manner and commensurate with the seriousness of the violation," Mailyan concluded.