The European Union can contribute to the advancement of negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the program “Eastern Partnership” is one of the steps on this path, MP from the ruling Moderate party and member of the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs Gustav Blix said in an interview with Trend.
“The EU and alos Sweden want to play a constructive part in solving frozen conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. I think that a European integration is a way forward and the Eastern Partnership is a part of that. This program creates a natural framework for reducing tensions and launching the process”.
“These solutions are the pan-European, which laid the basis for respect for international law and international borders, as well as human rights and democracy,” Blix said.
“All conflicts in the region, including Nagorno-Karabakh, have to find a political solution […] exclusively on the basis of respect for international law and international borders. Achieving this, it will be easier to begin the process of economic and market integration and improve living conditions for every nation,” Blix said.
“The conflict is continued for over 20 years, and it is naive to believe that solutions can be achieved at one point. However, Sweden believes that through integration and empowerment of six member countries of the Eastern Partnership” can be done to establish cooperation and the future membership [in the EU] may be one of the ways to solve this problem, ” Blix said.
Blix believes other regional countries such as Turkey must be involved in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict besides the U.S. and Russia.
Important steps have been taken as part of the “Eastern Partnership” to increase contacts and partnership among the six countries, including, of course, Azerbaijan, Blix said adding that, however, there are still some problems to be solved.
“Each of the six countries of the Partnership has its own individual problems, and we discuss how we continue to move forward. I believe that countries have good prospects for developing relations in the framework of the Eastern Partnership and the EU,” Blix said.
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