The Armenian National Committee of America considers positive the willingness of the international community as a positive result of the meeting between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to restrain Azerbaijani aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia , the ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian made a comment over the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan held on May 16 in Vienna.
ANCA hopes Vienna meeting to restrain Azerbaijani aggression
STEPANAKERT, MAY 17, ARTSAKHPRESS-ARMENPRESS: “Reports from today’s meeting between President Sargsyan and President Aliyev calling for mechanisms to monitor the Nagorno Karabakh ceasefire and increase the OSCE Minsk Group observer presence in the region represent promising early indications that the international community, after far too many years of appeasing Baku, may be willing to take meaningful steps to confront and constrain Azerbaijan’s escalating aggression against both the Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia,” Hamparian stated.
He expressed hope that the meeting will put an end to the failed policy of the OSCE Minsk Group. “The key, of course, is in the implementation of these understandings – and, to that end, a willingness by the OSCE Minsk Group and the international community to clearly and unequivocally condemn Azerbaijan’s obstruction of these confidence building measures. The OSCE’s counter-productive pattern of artificial even-handedness in the face of Azerbaijan’s ongoing ceasefire violations and escalation of violence has only served to embolden President Aliyev’s march toward war. We hope that this failed policy of false parity will finally be put to an end with this Vienna meeting,” Hamparian concluded.
