Azerbaijan's Bayramov, US' Karen Donfried Yet Again Mull Baku's Demands On Lachin Corridor
Date
2/15/2023 10:59:47 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and US Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried
have had another phone conversation although Baku's press release
did not elaborate on who initiated the call this time in view of
another one a short while ago, Azernews reports.
In a comment on the open-ended protest of Azerbaijani
eco-activists on the Lachin road, the Azerbaijani foreign minister
said that the legitimate demands of the protesters had not been
satisfied yet.
'The legitimate demands of the protestors on the Lachin road are
yet to be met,' Jeyhun Bayramov told Karen Donfried.
The protest of the eco-activists in Karabakh has been going on
since 12 December and was triggered following the failure of the
Russian peacekeeping contingent to ensure the free and unhindered
access of the Azerbaijani experts from various government agencies
to visit sites of natural deposits in Karabakh illegally exploited
by the ethnic Armenian separatists in Karabakh.
After the Russian peacekeepers' failure to provide the necessary
conditions for the Azerbaijani representatives to carry out their
duties in the designated areas, a group of eco-activists, NGOs, and
public representatives have taken to the street in protest at the
peacekeepers' repugnance to live up to their obligations in line
with the November 10, 2020, peace deal to maintain peace and order
in the region, and oust the Armenian troops from the region and
prevent illegalities. However, time proved that the Russian
peacekeepers are driven by the interests of Russia rather than the
idea coming from the essence of the notion of peacekeeping as
universally understood.
Coming back to the telephone conversation between Jeyhun
Bayramov and Karen Donfried, what the press release said was that
'the parties discussed the current situation in the region and the
prospects for negotiations on a peace agreement between Azerbaijan
and Armenia'.
The Azerbaijani foreign minister flatly denied any 'tense
humanitarian' situation in the region, pointing at misuse of the
sole road by the separatists as envisaged under the peace deal of
November 10, 2020, that resulted in Armenia's defeat in the
44-day-long second Karabakh war.
'Jeyhun Bayramov said that following the tripartite statement,
Azerbaijan only guarantees the safety of citizens, vehicles, and
cargo on the Lachin road. Still, Armenia is misusing the Lachin
road for illegal economic activities, for the rotations of Armenian
servicemen, and for the transportation of mines. He emphasized that
there is no basis for the claims that the region has a tense
humanitarian situation in the region,' the press release added.
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