“First and foremost, EEU is an economic organization, we shouldn’t politicize our economic integration, as any politicization will lead to economic integrating issues, and EEU won’t provide the outcome we anticipate to have.”
“Unfortunately, such conflicts are never settled at the wish of one party. We would be glad if we managed to make progress today towards the implementation of the agreements that we have achieved, in other words, to create mechanisms of investigating ceasefire violations. This would create a good working climate for talks,” Sargsyan said.
Military trainings will be launched in the bordering units, Nakhchivan and Azerbaijani part of the Caspian Sea. Artsrun Hovhannisyan said there is no need to worry. “We will thoroughly touch upon it. We follow all the steps by Azerbaijan. I don’t see any reason to worry,” he said.
“I am impatiently waiting for this meeting. We hope the sides will sum up the OSCE agreement on implementing investigative mechanisms and will restore talks for comprehensive peace agreement,” he said.
“We are convinced, that all those crisis situations would be more easily settled in case of overcoming systemic shortcomings in the field of pan-European cooperation, annulation of maintained dividing line,” he said, calling to initiate a common economic and humanitarian domain, which will stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and will be based on equal and inseparable security architecture.
Gagik Beglaryan, Minister of Transport and Communication, informed that agreements have been signed, however, we should be able to provide transit from the West to the Black Sea, he stated that this month Iranian specialists will arrive on occasion of the railway, technical survey is ready, however, funds are necessary for its construction.
NATO is a productive tool to repress Russia, many in Georgia and Ukraine refer to this structure only from this perspective. On the other hand, according to Kapitonenko, NATO is the “monster” around which Russia builds its foreign policy in the post-Soviet area.
Much of the money for Azerbaijan has been targeted toward naval forces, to reduce the risk that it could be used against Armenia (which is landlocked) and because of the U.S.’s interest in protecting Caspian energy infrastructure.
“In 2005, the director of the Institute of Radioactive Issues of the Azerbaijani National Academy openly announced in an interview that there are numerous chemical agents in Azerbaijan, the whereabouts of which is unknown even to the state.”
“Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict is a litmus paper directed to the international community, for elimination of its own defects. Democratic civilized society should first and foremost make use of this circumstance. “
