As Trend reports Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said that Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the biggest problem of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994 with the
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, comprising Russia, France, and the U.S., currently engaged in peace negotiations. Armenia has yet to implement the U.N. Security Council’s 4 resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions. According to Mammadyarov, sometimes there is a problem of double standards in global politics and that is unfair. The minister said that to make their voice heard, they had to be a strong country and that was why they were working on strengthening the role of the international community in addressing the problem through our embassies and through the media outlets. “Our number one agenda is to inform the international community about our situation regarding Armenian occupation,” the minister said.
“Unfortunately, the international community and in particular, the United States, Russia and France as three major powers that are mediating the peace process and the withdrawal of Armenian troops – are not putting very much pressure on Armenia. So we must intensify our negotiations,” said the minister. The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister said that to some extent they already had the so-called roadmap of principles for the negotiation process. And after all this negotiation, Azerbaijan announced that they were ready to start working on a peace agreement but at the very last moment, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan took an unconstructive position in the talks.
“In the end, it is a question of time, of course I am absolutely certain of that point of view at the issue from a long-term perspective, I am absolutely sure that Armenia will eventually return our territories because it is a matter of international law. From the point of view of all international treaties, including the United Nations charter,
justice is totally on our side,” he said. “I am my government’s foreign minister, and as such, I will always prefer a diplomatic solution. We will try to use diplomatic means to resolve this issue. I do not think that we have yet exhausted all diplomatic options on this issue,” the minister said. “If diplomatic options should fail, then, yes, we are prepared to use whatever means it takes to reclaim our territory,” he concluded.
