HistoryofTruth.com - Armenian Allegations

A two-day Pan-Armenian conference in Khankendy, organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun Party of Armenia, concluded on Saturday with a firm resolution demanding Yerevan “make immediate and drastic corrections to its flawed approach to both the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks and the ongoing negotiations to normalize relations with Turkey.”

The resolution that Dashnaks issued called Armenian government to refrain from signing any agreement through international mediators which would compromise so called independence of self declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. The resolution also demanded participation of seperatist Nagorno-Karabakh regime to the negotiations for resolution ofKarabakh conflict.About the process of normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia, the resolution demanded that Armenia immediately break off from the negotiations.

The appeal came a day after the presidents of the United States, Russia and France issued a joint statement at the G-8 Summit in Italy urging the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to quickly “resolve the few differences remaining between them” in order to finalize an agreement on a comprehensive settlement to the Karabakh conflict. The Armenian and Azeri presidents are to meet in Moscow on July 17 under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group.

The joint statement also referred to an updated version of the Madrid Document “first issued to Armenia and Azerbaijan in November 2007” to be relayed to the Armenian and Azeri presidents by the Minsk co-chairs.

The basic principles of this document, published for the first time in this joint statement, require “the return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control and an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh providing guarantees for security and self-government.” The Madrid Principles also envision a corridor linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh,“as well as a future determination of the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh “through a legally binding expression of will,” and the right of “internally displaced persons and refugees to return to their former places of residence.”

Azeri president Ilham Aliyevsaid in an interview on Russian State Television on July 4 that consensus had been reached among the parties to begin the withdrawal from the liberated territories and that that Karabakh would not have a corridor linking it with Armenia. He added that these principles had been agreed upon without any discussion on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.