ANC labels Deauville statement as ghost of Dayton Agreement

PanARMENIAN.Net - Representative of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) David Shahnazaryan has labeled the Deauville statement as a ghost of Dayton Agreement.

The statement is a result of unprecedented global cooperation established between Russia and the West recently, Shahnazaryan told a press conference in Yerevan.

According to him, those politicians and leaders of states, who try to construct their policy based on discrepancies between Russia and the West, specifically the U.S., commit a mistake. Shahnazaryan noted that this is the first time when the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries cooperate so closely and consistently for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.

Shahnazaryan believes that the Deauville statement is a message to Serzh Sargsyan on soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict. It says that all the terms have expired; besides, there are certain references to the Sochi agreements instead of the Madrid Principles, noted Shahnazaryan.

It is possible that the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries will reconcile the composition and mandate of peacekeeping forces in the Karabakh conflict zone soon, concluded Shahnazaryan.

Presidents Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy called upon the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan “to demonstrate their political will by finalizing the Basic Principles during their upcoming summit in June. “Further delay would only call into question the commitment of the sides to reach an agreement,” reads a statement adopted by the leaders of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries in Deauville.

Dayton Agreement is the peace agreement reached at Wrigth-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. It put an end to the three and a half year long war in Bosnia, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.