An agreement on the stage-by-stage settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was reached at the St. Petersburg meeting, the deputy head of Azerbaijani presidential administration, the chief of the administration's foreign relations department, Novruz Mammadov, said.
“During that meeting, the priority was given to the stage-by-stage settlement of the conflict. That’s to say, from now on, it is necessary to act step by step in the settlement process: first, the liberation of Azerbaijan’s five districts, then two more districts and determining the corridor and afterwards, determining the status of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Trend cited the top official as saying.
“Such an agreement has been reached for the present,” he said, noting that Armenia can take provocative steps and refuse from fulfilling its promise, as it did before.
Novruz Mammadov also said that given a very high level of relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, their strategic partnership, good neighborhood relations, shared history, cooperation in cultural, economic, political, security and other spheres and the fact that Russia is one of the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, in terms of possibility and position, this country can play a more decisive role in the fair settlement of the conflict in line with the international law.
“For example, although France and the US are the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, they are relatively far from these processes,” Mammadov added.
