“The most noteworthy in this statement was installation of investigative mechanisms and expansion of Kasprzyk’s office should take place in parallel with content negotiations on the settlement. Maybe many didn’t pay attention to this paragraph, but it was a rather essential observation.”
“Looking forward to Austria’s OSCE chairmanship 2017. We will focus on defusing conflicts, fighting against radicalization and building trust,” Kurz writes.
“There is no alternative to intensive negotiations. As a result of these very negotiations unexpected agreements will be reached, thus, the mediators should provide those dynamic negotiations not allowing any of the sides to toughen its position,” Macfarlane said.
According to her, the EU expects implementation of agreements reached at meetings of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Vienna and St. Petersburg.
“Have we limited us in relating to EU in doing trade, socializing, making investments, by membership to EEU?—of course, not. In other Government actions plans the EU is on the same place. Moreover, we rather openly talked to our EU partners, who also expressed such a concern.”
“And we’ve also called for a full and frank acknowledgement of the facts of what happened around those deaths. And that remains our policy. I don’t want to get into terminology or how we referred to it. We acknowledged that 1.5 million Armenians were massacred, as I said, and we want to see a full historical accounting of those events.”
“I don’t consider Germany’s co-chairmanship completely lost, as two presidential meetings have been launched in that period, proposals, security mechanisms have been submitted, around which works still continue in OSCE. If a meeting is launched in Hamburg, maybe it’ll be possible to come to an agreement around these proposals,” Rahr said.
After spending time with people in Nagorno-Karabakh, it’s clear to me that the only way the nation will ever again be a part of Azerbaijan is if Azerbaijan conquers it. And despite Azerbaijan’s being vastly larger, I can’t imagine that ever will happen. Armenians had lived on this land for centuries before it was incorporated into Azerbaijan.
While on a working visit to the USA, Prime Minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan on December 5 had a meeting with the leaderships of two Armenian organizations in Washington and took part in the reception organized in the Armenian Embassy.
Trump may have asked Pence to make the call to Sargsyan due to his familiarity with Armenian issues during his 10-year tenure in the House of Representatives.
