Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE: Turkey has played a negative role on Karabakh – RIA Novosti

YEREVAN, April 6 – RIA Novosti, Hamlet Matevosyan. , Turkey has played a negative role in the exacerbation of the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone, said the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the OSCE, Ambassador Arman Kirakosyan.

Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that his country’s readiness to assist Azerbaijan does not mean Ankara Baku is pushing for war. According to him, “we express our condolences to the brotherly Azerbaijan in connection with the death of a soldier, support Azerbaijan at the right moment does not mean pushing” him to the war. According to the Turkish minister, “any country that comes to occupy Nagorno-Karabakh – a region that belongs to Azerbaijan and then tries to show guilty of Azerbaijan and Turkey.” He added that “to be honest and fair, the occupied territories belong to Azerbaijan”. Cavusoglu called “black propaganda” reports by a number of Iranian media reports that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has provoked the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. He said that “Ankara has advocated that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be settled peacefully within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”, “are the approval of new crimes against the Armenians Provocative statements by Turkish officials”

, -. He said Kirakosyan at a special meeting of the OSCE permanent Council on the latest developments in the Karabakh conflict zone, said on Wednesday the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

“The latest events are different from the previous exacerbations attempts to occupy the territory and mass bombing of civilian settlements and civilian . persons that aims to intimidate the people of Karabakh Bombing school in Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in the death and wounding of children, as well as the brutal murder of the elderly in the village of Talish from the Azeri riot, were regarded as war crimes “- Kirakosyan said

Armenia and Azerbaijan on April 2, said the worsening situation in the zone of Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijani Defense ministry said, in particular, about the shelling by the armed forces of Armenia, with the Armenian Defense ministry reported “offensive actions” from the Azerbaijani side. According to the report of the United Nations United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as a result of an exacerbation of the conflict 33 people were killed in Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 200 injured. Tuesday afternoon, the parties stated that the suspended military operations in the conflict zone.

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh began in February 1988, when the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region announced its withdrawal from Azerbaijan SSR. In September 1991, in the center of Nagorno-Karabakh Stepanakert it announced the establishment of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Azerbaijan during the subsequent military conflict has lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Since 1992, the negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group. Azerbaijan insists on preserving its territorial integrity, Armenia protects the interests of the breakaway republic, as Karabakh is not a party to the negotiations

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