Serzh Sargsyan: As the Guarantor of the People of Karabakh, Armenia Makes Efforts tp Prevent New Escalations

• 03.14.2017, 22:17
•  Armenia

Armenia, as the security guarantor of the people of Nagorno Karabakh has to make efforts to preserve the balance of power in the region and to prevent new escalations. As the correspondent of Armenpress reports, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan announced this in his speech in front of the students and professors of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).

"At the same time we are ready to adequately retaliate to any attempt of unleashing war. War is not a way out. There is no alternative to negotiations. Armenia, together with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair states, Russia, the United States and France will continue efforts aimed at exclusively peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict" the Armenian President said.

According to him, security issues remain actual topics for Armenia.

"Our partners used to assure us until 2016 that by militaristic rhetoric and anti-Armenian hysteria Baku tries to solve its domestic political issues. The 4-day military adventurism launched by Azerbaijan in April, 2016 against Nagorno Karabakh was the materialization of the propaganda, which came against the wish of the people of Artsakh to decide their fate freely in their motherland," the President of Armenia stressed.

Serzh Sargsyan reminded that during the Vienna and St. Petersburg summits following the April war the strict abidance to the trilateral agreements of 1994/95 was highlighted.

"Another agreement was reached over installing mechanisms investigating ceasefire violations in the conflict zone and expanding the number of OSCE observers. But Azerbaijan, as in the past, evades from the implementation of these agreements," the Armenian President noted.