Reasonable, fair and adequate mutual concessions are necessary – NKR President

YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, ARMENPRESS. A new negotiation stage will be opened for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement if Azerbaijan adheres to the ceasefire agreement, and Nagorno Karabakh joins the negotiations, “Armenpress” reports citing the Radio Liberty, NKR President Bako Sahakyan gave an interview to electronic newspaper of the French Parliament.

“Azerbaijan must be able to give up its xenophobic policy towards the Armenians, its futile gamble and must respect the fundamental freedoms and rights of the other people”, Bako Sahakyan said.

The NKR President said the April four-day war was an outcome of Azerbaijan’s “anti-Armenian ideology and the leadership’s dictatorship” towards the Armenian people.

As for the mutual concessions, Bako Sahakyan said the complex conflicts like the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are possible to settle only through mutual concessions. He said reasonable, fair and adequate mutual concessions are necessary. “We are ready to go to mutual concessions if they do not undermine the security of our country, if they do not give opportunities to our enemy for starting new attacks on us”, he said.

Referring to the recognition of Nagorno Karabakh by the international community and the success achieved over this issue, Bako Sahakyan ensured the Nagorno Karabakh recognition will achieve greater success in the near future leaving its positive impact on the stability of the South Caucasus.

To the question whether the minority’s demand for self-determination is legitimate, the NKR President stated: “All people have right to self-determination, it is one of the major principles of the international law. But this right becomes an imperative duty only when the state, to which it is connected, doesn’t have another wish than to eliminate that people”.