How can we speak about conflict settlement if they shoot on the border? (video)
“During the four-day April war in Karabakh, everyone saw that Azerbaijan refused to accept that it had lost a large number of soldiers, trying to avoid the problem of identification or problems related to the return of bodies,” Armenian lawmaker Karen Bekaryan said today in reply to the statement of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry according to which the man taken hostage by the Artsakh Defense Army is not an Azerbaijani soldier. He says Azerbaijan does not want to be helpful to its soldier and is not concerned about his fate. “A short time later, we saw [on the Internet] the address of the captive’s mother. There is something tragic in the Ministry’s statement and in the mother’s address. The mother’s address appeared on the Internet quite accidently. A question arises here: what might happen to the soldier’s family?” he said. Mr Bekaryan says the co-chairs might make new calls in the near future but ‘I doubt if those statements will be clearly targeted.’ “When the co-chairs do not address any of the parties in their statements, they encourage Azerbaijan,” he said. Commenting on the statement of Russian Co-Chair, according to which the international mediators are ready to arrange a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs in Munich in mid February, the lawmaker said he did not doubt that the meeting would take place; he doubted whether it would produce results. "I am very skeptical because recently we became convinced that Azerbaijan does not intend to implement the agreements reached in Vienna before each meeting, negotiation and consultation. The so-called peace process is completely illogical in this context. How can we sit down and talk about a political settlement if they shoot on the border? How can we speak about confidence-building measures when they kill on the border?” Mr Bekaryan.
