Armenian foreign minister: We have no intentions to use Kosovo as precedent for Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement

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The Armenian foreign minister while speaking at the UN General Assembly session presented Yerevan’s position on an initiative to propose for discussion at the UN General Assembly the subject of frozen conflicts. “The Nagorno Karabakh conflict is on the agenda of the UN General Assembly on frozen conflicts. However, any resolution that covers all conflicts is not comprehensive from the start, as all of them are different,” Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan announced yesterday.

As REGNUM was told at the Armenian foreign ministry press office, Vardan Oskanyan that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict must not be discussed at the UN, as the negotiation process on its settlement is held within frameworks of the OSCE. “It is not the place for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” the minister concluded.

According to the foreign minister, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is not a frozen one. “We continue the negotiations and centimeter for centimeter are getting closer to its settlement. Secondly, there is a serious document on the negotiation table that is based not on dreams but on key problems and consequences,” the diplomat said adding that together they would result in a balanced solution. “Thirdly, the process is grounded upon the right of the Nagorno Karabakh people for self-determination, for choosing their future. The Nagorno Karabakh people want nothing that does not belong to them. They want to have a right for peaceful living and determining their future. They want to use the right that every nation used represented at the UN.”

“We are closely watching the developments around Kosovo. We hear statements of the international community that Kosovo can become a precedent for other conflicts. We have no intentions to use Kosovo as precedent, as it will contradict our position that all conflicts differ,” Vardan Oskanyan said that the Armenian side does not understand and cannot accept the reverse logic that Kosovo was given independence and that a nation cannot obtain self-determination. “Nobody should tell us that there are proportions of freedom or security,” Vardan Oskanyan concluded.

The initiative to discuss frozen conflicts at the 62^nd UN General Assembly was proposed by GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova).