{"id":304995,"date":"2020-07-21T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epress.am\/?p=304995"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T09:36:18","slug":"armenia-offers-azerbaijan-joint-monitoring-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2020\/07\/21\/armenia-offers-azerbaijan-joint-monitoring-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Offers Azerbaijan Joint Monitoring\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.am\/en\/interviews-articles-and-comments\/2020\/07\/21\/fm_france_24\/10391\">interview<\/a><\/span> to France 24 TV, Armenia\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan stated that Armenia is willing to incorporate measures towards minimizing risks of military escalation and investigating violations of ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very insistent on that. We are very insistent on further measures including the expansion of monitoring, the establishment of a direct line on the ground. And those are the measures that will help us to control the ceasefire regime,\u201d stated Mnatsakanyan calling upon Azerbaijan \u201cto come to reason\u201d, accept the suggestions and work with Armenia towards strengthening the ceasefire regime.<\/p>\n<p>Mnatsakanyan reiterated Armenia\u2019s full commitment to the strictly peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. \u201cThe war is not an option. The war is a total catastrophe for the entire region. Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are capable to defending themselves. But war should be totally ruled out. We are fully committed to the peaceful resolution of the conflict in a way that addresses the interests of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as Azerbaijan in an equal measure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 We have to work on such a balance of commitments that helps to achieve a propotionate compromise, it has to be a compromise-based solution, the maximalist position of Azerbaijan is not helpful in this. Therefore, we will continue to work towards this within the internationally agreed format of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the question that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chaimanship has not led anywhere, is it not expedient to revisit the format and do something else instead of focusing on something that has not been working, Mnatsakanyan responded: \u201cWell, I cannot agree that it hasn\u2019t been working. It has been working very effectively, it has been a very solid basis, very solid platform, in which all the three countries &#8211; Russia, France and the United States, have been working in a very engaging manner. They continue to make very important contribution to the peace process. I do consider this is a very positive role and we do not see any reason why it should change.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; We have to work on such a balance of commitments that helps to achieve a propotionate compromise, it has to be a compromise-based solution, the maximalist position\u2024\u2024\u2024<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,65984],"tags":[79488,79295,79499,52166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}