Deputy PM reiterates Armenia’s position on Karabakh settlement
Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan took part on Friday in the online meeting of the Council of the CIS Heads of Governments. The agenda of the meeting included 15 issues, including a joint statement on the spread of the novel coronavirus, the government’s press service reports.
Addressing the participants, the deputy prime minister stressed that Armenia strongly opposes the use of the CIS platform as a tool to impose Azerbaijan’s unilateral approaches distorting the nature of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“The Armenian side reaffirms its commitment to an exclusively peaceful settlement of conflicts in accordance with the principles of international law, in their full interconnectedness and harmony, on the sidelines of an agreed format aimed at easing tensions and restoring an atmosphere of peaceful coexistence,” the deputy PM said.
He supported the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship as the only internationally mandated format for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
“I would like to remind and reaffirm our principled position that only a constructive approach based on the renunciation of maximalist positions and readiness to compromise will help to achieve progress and reach the settlement of the conflict,” he stressed.