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Armenia-Azerbaijan, Turkey: ready to help Baku recover the occupied territories
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by Antonella Alba
30 September 2020Perhaps a turning point four days after the bloody conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia is evaluating the possibility of recognizing the independence of the area at the center of important Turkish and Russian interests.
This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
"This option is on the agenda. There is also the possibility of signing a strategic cooperation agreement between Armenia and Karabakh, there is the possibility of signing a cooperation treaty in the sphere of security and defense" , Pashinyan said during a meeting with Russian journalists in Yerevan.
The options are under discussion and decisions will be made "depending on certain factors", he said.
Yesterday in a phone call between the Armenian Prime Minister and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the head of the Kremlin had "expressed grave concern about the continuation of the fighting" between Azeris and Armenians.
Called by the Armenian Prime Minister Putin, he stressed the urgent need for the parties to put an end to the clashes and to take measures for a de-escalation of the crisis. "
Today in an emergency meeting on the conflict, the UN Security Council had unanimously signed a document in which he expressed his support for the appeal of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, thus directly addressing the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces to "immediately stop the fighting, reduce tensions and return to meaningful negotiations without delays ".
At first, the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had judged premature the idea of negotiations with Azerbaijan, with Russian complicit mediation." It is not appropriate to talk about an Armenia-Azerbaijan-Russia summit while clashes are underway ", he said." For negotiations you need an adequate atmosphere. "Yet he says, Armenia is always ready for a peaceful solution," but that does not mean that it is
or Karabakh are ready for a solution to the conflict that damages their national interests or their security ".
And also from Strasbourg the European Court for Human Rights urged by the Armenian side on Monday, referring to the right to life and to behaviors that do not harm fundamental rights, warned the two countries at the center of the bloody conflict to refrain from all actions, in particular military, which may involve a violation of the rights of civilians guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights.
The appeal of the international community was not enough for Turkey which, through the mouth of its foreign minister, reiterated its full support for Azerbaijan, saying that "the country is able to liberate its lands on its own. But if it wants", Turkey's support to "solve this problem" of the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, "we will be at its side", said Mevlet Cavusoglu, offering full availability to intervene even militarily in the re-erupted conflict in the Caucasus.
"With this attack, Armenia declares to ignore international law. To this - continued Cavusgolu - we must give an answer. Azerbaijan is waging a struggle in its territory. In which part of the world the occupier and the occupied come treated in the same way? ".
Behind the Turkish threat, the French response made itself felt.
It is President Macron himself who says from Latvia where he is visiting that France is "extremely worried" by Turkey's "bellicose" statements which he defined as "reckless and dangerous".
And US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from Greece where he was visiting yesterday before arriving in Italy also appealed to Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists to "end the violence" and "resume negotiations as quickly as possible" .
"The two sides must put an end to the violence and work with the Minsk group to resume substantial negotiations as soon as possible," said the head of US diplomacy.