NKR official: reconciliation of basic principles on Karabakh unlikely in Kazan

PanARMENIAN.Net - Masis Mailyan, the chairman of the council on foreign policy and security, former NKR Deputy Foreign Minister, says it will be difficult to reach an agreement on basic principles for the Karabakh conflict settlement in Kazan.

“As for the upcoming meeting in Kazan, taking into consideration the declared approaches of the conflicting parties, the reconciliation of basic principles and compromise decision is a rather complicate task. There are not objective prerequisites for it. Under the current conditions, the so-called basic principles can be signed only due to strong international pressure,” Mailyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

According to him, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries are trying to prove viability of outdated Helsinki principles, “which this very countries, to put it mildly, avoided for the past years numerously.” He noted that there are new precedents and international legal reality, which should be considered by mediators in the Karabakh conflict settlement.

Mailyan also commented on conversation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs with journalists prior to their departure from Stepanakert.

Mailyan said the mediators’ statements contained two basic messages – unacceptability of the problem resolution through the use of force and necessity of soonest reconciliation and signing of Basic or Madrid Principles and their elements. “Thus, the Co-chairs have repeated their Presidents’ stance voiced in Deauville,” he concluded.