First President of Armenia says Azerbaijan’s aggression in April is explained by international community’s parity approach
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YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. First President of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan held a meeting with the US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills on May 12 at the initiative of the latter, Armenian National Congress (ANC) informed “Armenpress”.
Ambassador Mills mentioned that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs make efforts to set a constructive dialogue between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He stated that the Co-chairs have mentioned numerous times that in order to achieve peace and stability in the region, all the parties must demonstrate political will to take such decisions that will create an environment of trust. “It is not easy to take such decisions, but it is encouraging that the Armenian authorities has assumed commitment for negotiated conflict settlement and we hope it will continue the same way”, Ambassador Mills said.
Agreeing with the US Ambassador, Levon Ter-Petrosyan underscored the importance of creating monitoring mechanisms on Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line parallel to the resumption of negotiations. He explained this with the fact that the parity approach adopted by the international community during the previous ceasefire violations not only did not help to exclude new violations, but indirectly encouraged Azerbaijan to unleash the large-scale April provocation, that claimed numerous lives from both sides. The creation of the monitoring mechanisms will give an opportunity to point out the violator in each circumstance, which can be a restraining factor.