The German Ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt highlights the speeches of the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Prime Minister of France during the OSCE summit taken place in Astana. They mentioned in their speeches that during the NKR conflict resolution the key 3 principles shouldn’t me separated and those should be considered on a single platform. “I also very much signify the speech of the Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan made in Astana, who raised the importance of national self-determination, refusal of use of force and the necessity of the simultaneous application of the territorial administration. I fully understand the attitude of Armenia to simultaneously signify the three principles. I also find it right that you demonstrate a clear approach to the regulation of the conflict and rising of the flag. The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev also excluded the use of force in the regulation of the NKR conflict,” during yesterday’s press conference mentioned the ambassador of Germany by highlighting that he personally and the German people support the principle of national self-determination. “But I fully understand Armenia’s position that emphasizes the need for a simultaneous and joint application of those three principles,” he told a news conference. “I also think it right … to express a clear position, which is what happened in this case.” The Ambassador emphasized that peacefulness is Armenia’s advantage over Azerbaijan. “Military rhetoric and non-proportional policy will never promote resolution of conflicts in South Caucasus,” the diplomat said. “The incidents of the conflict zone come to prove that the conflict is not frozen but is only in a dormant condition. The incidents on the border prove about the low level security on the border. We should do everything to exclude the possibility of these incidents becoming an open conflict,” said Schmidt by ensuring that the OSCE Minsk Group will with “honor” fulfill its function and objective and will resolve the NKR conflict, which is considered a conflict of interests.
