Baku keeps undermining Karabakh peace process

PanARMENIAN.Net - The new Armenian leadership stands adherent to a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict through talks in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group and on the basis of its Madrid proposals, as well as with full-fledged participation of Nagorno Karabakh in negotiation process, says Armenian Foreign Ministry's 2008 annual report.



The report says that last year Azerbaijan made an attempt to dissolve the OSCE Minsk Group by pushing a draft resolution on Karabakh in the UN General Assembly. "Although the resolution was adopted with 39 votes, it did not receive support from the OSCE MG co-chair states - Russia, U.S. and France," it says.



The RA Foreign Ministry also stresses the importance of the Moscow declaration [signed by Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on December 2, 2008], envisaging peaceful resolution of the conflict and implementation of confidence-building measures.



"Despite the recent intensification of talks, Azerbaijan keeps undermining the peace process. The Azeri leadership doesn't stop military rhetoric and presents the principle of territorial integrity as the basic principle of the international law," the report says.



It also mentions of the Helsinki declaration, which underscored inadmissibility of resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by use of force, issued by Foreign Ministers of the OSCE MG co-chair states on December 4.



"Armenia will be consistent in continuing talks in conformity with the Moscow and Helsinki declarations," the report says.