Friday, December 11 2020 23:48

ArmInfo.The precedent in the zone of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict had disastrous  consequences for the Karabakh region, but it may also have serious  consequences outside Armenia. On December 11, during a round table in  Sputnik dedicated to the Karabakh conflict, the professor, honorary  doctor of MGIMO, former head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry (held  this post in 2008-2018) Edward Nalbandian stated this.

"Today the President of Azerbaijan says that international law does  not work. Today he speaks of the importance of the law of force, not  the force of law. These are very dangerous tendencies that are  fraught with threats. This must be stopped, especially against the  background of the voiced claims to most of the territories of  Armenia. Moreover, this is also encouraged by the leader of another  state initiating this war, who provided full support during the  hostilities, as evidenced by their presence at the parade in Baku,  "said Nalbandian, who in this regard recalled the words of Russian  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov from 2017, who emphasized that the  Karabakh issue is not exclusively an internal affair of Azerbaijan.  Moreover, according to him a lot of documents were adopted on this  issue, which speaks of the need to return the territories around  Karabakh, but not by force, but through negotiations, as well as the  importance of Artsakh's right to self-determination.

At the same time, the former Foreign Minister of Armenia stressed  that in all working documents until 2018, and which were transferred  to a deposit in the OSCE Secretariat, it is said that the  representative of Nagorno-Karabakh should participate in drawing up a  draft peace agreement.

In turn, the former head of the mediating mission of Russia, the  former plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation on  the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk  Group from Russia Vladimir Kazimirov noted that today it is important  for Russia to observe the ceasefire of November 9. However, he said,  the violation of the 1994-95 perpetual ceasefire and its  strengthening agreements cannot be ignored, as this sets a precedent.  At the same time, he pointed to the evidence that the war was  initiated by Azerbaijan. "This is evidenced by the fact that there  were no local clashes, but battles began along the entire perimeter  of the front line. And Armenia or Artsakh could not start this war.  It is not logical, Why? After all, they had control over 7 regions.  It is rather easy to guess who started the second Karabakh war. This  is not a spontaneous war, this is a military operation, planned by  the Supreme Commander of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, "Kazimirov  concluded.