A senior Presidential Administration official has repeated Baku's demands for more pressure to be put on Armenia to solve the Karabakh conflict.
Ali Hasanov, head of the public policy department at the Presidential Administration, spoke to Azerinform on the eve of the OSCE Minsk Group mediators' latest visit to Baku.
"The Azerbaijani government is not satisfied with all the structures involved in this sphere, including the institution of the OSCE co-chairs, as the negotiation process is being protracted even further by the ambitions of the opposite side and issues agreed earlier are back on the agenda.
"Azerbaijan demands that just pressure be increased on the opposite party to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This issue has its framework principles which have raised the need to speed up the process. The lack of any pressure on the opposite side will be protracted even further. The co-chairs have been informed about this resentment, and we are going to increase pressure further," Hasanov said.
"Pressure must be increased on international organizations, as well. They are also committed to ensure the protection of Azerbaijan’s rights as a member of the world community, as envisaged in the UN Charter," he continued.
Hasanov said the view the opinion of the Azerbaijani public that the OSCE Minsk Group was unable to put pressure on Armenia and should say so openly was a fair point.
“The Azerbaijani public, including deputies, intellectuals, public representatives and nongovernmental organizations frequently make such fair statements. Refugees and IDPs, whose rights have not been restored for decades, will specifically raise this pressure and make their claims. The OSCE co-chairs must either make progress in the conflict settlement or give up. The co-chairs have to make a statement that they are not coping with the task and Azerbaijan must restore its national and international rights as it can,” the head of department said, without elaborating.
Hasanov said that the report on the OSCE field assessment mission to the Armenian-occupied areas would be discussed during the Baku meetings.
He said that some parts of the report coincided with Azerbaijan's view, while some did not.
“However, the information we provided to the fact-finding mission is absolutely true. Nagorno-Karabakh is an uncontrolled area and we have observations, assumptions and some suspicions about drug trafficking and other illegal actions in the area, which is not controlled by any state. We provide this information but we cannot guarantee its 100% accuracy.
"Therefore, the fact-finding mission's job was to investigate the facts that we cannot check and compile a report.”
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