“We need to find security possibilities for NK conflict,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, told at today’s joint press conference with Edward Nalbandian, RA Foreign Minister, touching upon his message with which he’ll head for Baku.
“Only stability with economic improvement, free market relations, rule of law, democratic criteria may move forward countries, like Armenia and Azerbaijan, to conflict settlement. For peace all these conditions may become a reality in European and Euro Atlantic organizations in case of further rapprochement of the region,” he said.
“The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has the potential to escalate. During Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship we bear responsibility for reducing this danger as much as possible by strengthening the ceasefire, by taking confidence-building measures and by ensuring the imminent start of the negotiations,” Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin prior to his visit to the South Caucasus.
“NATO doesn’t plan to attack or violate Armenia’s air space, thus this joint mechanism can’t be observed as a means against NATO, meanwhile the sides—Armenia and Russia didn’t state on it,” Batu Kutelia noticed.
According to the data of Eurasian Economic Commission in the period of January-April 2016 about 2.7 million liters of strong alcoholic drinks have been exported to EEU member countries with total USD 29.6 million customs value. As compared to the same index of previous year, export of this group of production grew by 2.4 times in kind and 2.3 times in value.
This was the voice of internal protest against the Government and main political parties, rather than against the EU. This was a remonstrance against polarization of wealth in the country, which mainly centralized in London and big cities. This was also a protest against elitist, all politicians cut-off from the people, as well as against the press.
“Possible ways of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be discussed at the meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia and France, the two OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, in Paris on June 29. The ministers will also exchange views on the outcomes of the high-level meetings on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict which were held in Vienna in May and in St. Petersburg in June,” Zakharova said .
“It is important not to diminish the positive result by public rhetoric, it must be preserved for the implementation of concrete steps,” she said during the daily briefing. “There are topics that demand silence since here diplomats and experts must work,” she stated.
Eduard Sharmazanov, NA Deputy Speaker, stated that this is an agreement coming from interests of Armenia and it should be ratified. In his words, as compared to Belarus and Kazakhstan, which signed a united system with Russia, in case of Armenia, it’s a unified system, that is, Armenia’s air defense maintains its independence and will be headed by Armenia.
Report informs, it was said in the message of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the participants of the OSCE security conference opened today in Vienna, read out by the Director General of the UN Office in Geneva Michael Moller.
