Monday, October 28 2019 19:18

ArmInfo.The Republic of Armenia has been following closely the developments within the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), including the recent Summit of the Heads  of State and Government of NAM held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 25-26  October 2019. This is stated in the statement issued by the Armenia's  Foreign Ministry. 

''We deplore the fact that Azerbaijan, the host country of the Summit  and the current Chairman of the Movement, has once again opted for  the abuse of its membership in the Movement by promoting misleading,  extremely biased narratives on the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict in the  Outcome Document of the Summit.

Having a status of an observer country in the Non-Aligned Movement,  Armenia could neither engage in nor endorse in any way a process that  is highly demonstrative of the manipulative intention of the host  country to misuse the platform. Armenia regrets to mention that the  wording of the Outcome Document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict  falls short of upholding the principles at the heart of the Movement.

The authorities of Azerbaijan, who have perpetrated mass atrocities  against the Armenians in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, who have  been consistently conducting policies of intolerance and hatred,  including by way of public glorification of convicted murderers of  the Armenians, who have repeatedly attempted military aggression  against Nagorno-Karabakh, bear direct and immediate responsibility  for creating existential security risks for the people of  Nagorno-Karabakh. They have demonstrated, once again, a lack of  commitment to the peace process conducted under the auspices of the  OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, the only internationally mandated format  for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, by having opted  to yet another forum-shopping exercise in an attempt to derail the  ongoing negotiations.  Armenia firmly supports the inalienable rights  of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to freely determine their political  status without limitation and coercion and to freely pursue their  economic, social and cultural development. Armenia remains sole  security guarantor of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia urges the member states of the Non-Aligned Movement to  demonstrate responsibility and respect to the negotiations and to act  in line with the spirit, the logic and the course of the peace  process based on the norms and principles of international law, the  UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act, including equal rights and  self- determination of peoples as one of the key principles for the  peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict''. 

It should be noted that the XVIII Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement  in Baku ended with the adoption of four basic documents. In  particular, the Baku Outcome Document, the Baku Political  Declaration, the Palestine Declaration and the Gratitude and  Solidarity to the Government and people of Azerbaijan were adopted.  Documents will be published in the nearest future.

As the head of the department of international relations of the  presidential administration of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev wrote on  Twitter, "the heads of state and government of 120 countries  emphasized the inadmissibility of the seizure of territory by force  and declared the occupation of the territory of Azerbaijan by  Armenia." "The fact of the occupation has been reaffirmed by the  international community," Hajiyev emphasized. "Support for the  territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is also confirmed in the Baku  Political Declaration and Acknowledgment and Solidarity with the  government and people of Azerbaijan," he said.