There are no occupied territories in Nagorno Karabakh and around it
The meeting between Armenian and Azeri presidents in St. Petersburg on June 9 will not become fateful, NKR President Arkadi Ghukassian stated in Yerevan to a press conference after having met with OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos. He said, it will become one of those meetings, during which the sides will not come to an agreement. "If President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev continues to insist on his variant of settlement, the conflict will not be solved," Ghukassian underlined.
At the same time the NKR President stressed that the issue of territories adjacent to NKR is out of the question. "We do not have occupied territories and we do not have Armenian army here. The Defense Army of NKR liberated the security zone around NKR the same army defends those territories. But for some reasons nobody talks about those 15 percent of Karabakh territories, which up till now are under Azeri occupation: part of Martouni, Mardakert and the Shahumyan region. It is necessary to speak on equal terms about this issue," Ghukassian said.
At the same time the NKR President stressed that the issue of territories adjacent to NKR is out of the question. "We do not have occupied territories and we do not have Armenian army here. The Defense Army of NKR liberated the security zone around NKR the same army defends those territories. But for some reasons nobody talks about those 15 percent of Karabakh territories, which up till now are under Azeri occupation: part of Martouni, Mardakert and the Shahumyan region. It is necessary to speak on equal terms about this issue," Ghukassian said.
