MEP Josep-Maria Terricabras (Spain) representing Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament (EP) made an address at the plenary session of the EP, demanding to include representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh in negotiations underway in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, ArmenPress reports.
“On 10 December 1991, the vast majority of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh voted for independence in a referendum. The response to this democratic process was a military offensive by Azerbaijan, with more than 30 000 dead. Subsequently a ceasefire between Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia was signed. The creation of the Minsk Group in 1992 was a breakthrough, but Azerbaijan has refused to implement a true international mechanism for monitoring violations of the ceasefire.
Nagorno-Karabakh has fully democratic institutions, an exemplary judicial system and low levels of corruption. For this reason we request the inclusion of representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh in the negotiations of the Minsk Group, precisely because they decide the future of the country’s inhabitants. Once the military conflict is resolved it will be necessary to agree a procedure to properly recognise the new independent state at international level,” Josep-Maria Terricabras said.
The adoption of the declaration of High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is also expected to take place on April 12.
