Arman Melikyan: Azeri State Should Pay PenaltyMarch 25, 2006 - 14:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Each next phase of development of the conflict make search for peaceful solutions more complicated. If in 1988 Armenians of Karabakh still could discuss the question of enhancing their autonomy status to the level of autonomous republic, at the moment of concluding the cease-fire in 1994 no one in Karabakh could think of autonomous status within Azerbaijan, NKR President's Foreign Policy Advisor Arman Melikyan stated during scientific and practical conference titled Stability Models in the Black Sea/Caucasus Region. In his words, each new attempt of the Azeri authorities to solve the issue from the position of force posed the question of securing the people and guaranteeing its survival before the NKR. «On the other hand, it is apparent that Azeri authorities did not search for political solutions to forced political demands of Nagorno Karabakh. They tried to solve the issue by force, for which the Azeri state should pay penalty and should recognize its responsibility for sufferings of hundreds of thousand people and the state - the NKR,» Melikyan underscored.The NKR President's Advisor believes that recognition of Karabakh's independence by Azerbaijan will be the beginning of the way to reconciliation. «Azeri authorities have to pay compensations to Armenian refugees, as well as internally displaced Azeris. Some territories controlled by the NKR Defense Army today play the role of a security belt. After a reasonable period of time if the Azeri party does not undertake those actions, the aforementioned territories, along with their security function, may also become a resource for compensation to Armenian refugees and a place for their re-settlement, as citizens of the former Azerbaijani SSR they have the right to settle in any of its parts they prefer and where their rights - first of all that to life - are guaranteed,» he said. Arman Melikyan also remarked that use of force should be censured and punished, as full development of not only Azerbaijan and Karabakh, but also entire the Black Sea/Caucasus region is not possible without that. Top stories Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". Partner news | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |