Official Baku is not empowered to decide on sending any international mission to Nagorno Karabakh, NKR President’s advisor on foreign affairs Arman Melikian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “Only the NKR authorities have the right to give consent to presence of an EU mission. Such issues are decided in Stepanakert but not in Baku. It’s another matter that the EU eyes Nagorno Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan. All this happens because NKR doesn’t take part in the negotiation process. They speak only of the meetings of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, so it turns out to be an Armenian-Azeri conflict but not Nagorno Karabakh one, what is totally incorrect,” Melikian underscored. He also remarked that Armenia can nothing but approve such a mission.
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby said if Azerbaijan gives consent a mission for creation an atmosphere of trust will be sent to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict region. The purpose of the mission is to investigate the possibilities of carrying out measures in conflict zones within the EU New Neighborhood Policy.
