The documents on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict contain a denouement that will ensure justice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, speaking before the MGIMO students and professors Tuesday.
"Our line is based on the set of documents that have been developed over almost 18 years. There are the so-called "Madrid principles", and also updated versions of documents that were approved by the parties as a basis for further work. These documents have been deposited in the OSCE Secretariat. Suggestions are voiced that it is necessary to abandon these documents and start from scratch, or even launch some kind of plan 'B'," he said.
"We believe that this will be a big mistake and are convinced that what has been achieved over these years should remain the basis of our future efforts. I will not describe in detail what is agreed there. This is a fairly confidential part of the job. But I can assure you that there is a denouement that will ensure justice for both the Armenian and the Azerbaijani representatives," the Russian minister stressed.
The Russain foreign minister recalled that the co-chairs - Russia, the USA, and France - "were empowered to work daily to create the necessary atmosphere in which the parties themselves could find generally acceptable agreements."
"We don’t write scenarios for solving the problem, but we create conditions so that the parties could agree among themselves. Over the past 18 years, the first such documents have been developed between the parties. Big work has been done. The documents formulated principles that reflect both the principles of the UN Charter and the principles of the Helsinki Final Act. They also formulated specific parameters to be agreed for this settlement to take place," Lavrov pointed out.
The diplomat said that recently several incidents took place which has seriously increased tensions and didn’t contribute to a positive role for the efforts of the co-chairs to be successful in creating the proper atmosphere.
It should be noted that the Armenian government is insisting on the rejection of the Madrid principles and any other documents on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.
