Azerbaijan must negotiate with NKR on allocation of resources of Sarsang reservoir

YEREVAN, JANUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. The issue of providing water from Sarsang reservoir resourses to the residents of border villages of Azerbaijan must be an issue of negotiation exclusively between Nagorno Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan. As “Armenpress” reports, Gagik Minasyan, the Chairman of theStanding Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairsofthe National Assemblyof the Republic expressed such view during the meeting with journalists. According to him, such resolutions have no binding force, but they also cannot be ignored. “We need to thoroughly examine the situation and do what we always tried to do in fact. The Armenian side, in particular, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which is the sole owner of the mentioned water resources, must present its principled position to the international community. Any problem can be solved only in bilateral negotiations. If Azerbaijan wants to use its water resources for the desired period of time, NKR will not go against the discussion o that issue. If those discussions have taken place between the two countries - Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, I believe a solution will be chosen which will be beneficial for the peoples of 2 countries in such case,” Gagik Minasyan said.

But if Azerbaijan does not agree to this step only because it does not recognize the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh that means Azerbaijan refuses the report which it highlighted itself.

On January 26, the ParliamentaryAssembly of the Council of Europe adopted reporter Milica Marković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) draft resolution on “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” making some changes and revisions to the draft. 98 MPs voted for, 71 – against. 40 MPs abstained.