Republican Party of Armenia

At the recent meeting of the presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in Sochi an arrangement has been reached over working out a mechanism of investigation of incidents on the line of contact. Azerbaijan did everything not to create such mechanism, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian said at the joint news conference with his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle.
"At the previous meeting in Sochi, a year ago, the presidents referred to a number of points but these arrangements as well did not come true as Azerbaijan again stepped back," Foreign Minister of Armenia said.
He informed that corresponding proposals over the investigation mechanism have been presented by the co-chairs in March 2011 and Armenia responded to it. "Armenia once again positively responded in October past year to the proposal of the co-chairs. Azerbaijan has not answered till now," Nalbandian stressed.
As an example of unconstructive approach of Azerbaijan, Minister Nalbandian mentioned the discussions of the OSCE budget when Azerbaijan threatened to put a veto in case of allocation of financial means to the investigation mechanism. "It is one of the examples why we do not manage to register progress as we agree one thing, but Azerbaijan steps back from our arrangements," Nalbandian said.
He said the Azerbaijani position became the reason for failure to register progress. "That is the reason why the co-chairs fail to help the parties. They are doing a great work," the Minister said.
Nalbandian also highly rated the brokering activity of President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. "At the recent meeting in Sochi a quite high assessment was given to the activity of the co-chairs. Even Azerbaijani president stated that he highly values their activity and the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed hope that the mediators will continue working in the same format until peace is established in the region," the minister said. He stressed that few days after these statements of Ilham Aliev suddenly a criticism was voiced addressed to the co-chairs which once again proves the unconstructive approach of Azerbaijan. 

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