Armenia Foreign Ministry: Madrid Principles gave time, but Azerbaijan did not use it

YEREVAN. – The Madrid Principles on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were allowing time, but Baku did not use it.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan stated the above-said to reporters, after Thursday’s Cabinet meeting. He noted this commenting on the recent statement by Ambassador James Warlick, US Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, with respect to handing over territories to Azerbaijan, in exchange for the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. In Kocharyan’s words, however, Warlick said nothing new, and he just repeated what is written in the Madrid Principles.

But, as per the Armenian deputy FM, after the aggression which Azerbaijan unleashed in early April, the time has come to think seriously about the basis of the Karabakh pe...