The international community should put maximum pressure on Azerbaijan to solve the humanitarian crisis in NK. Rasmussen
International mechanisms should be created to guarantee the rights and security of the NK population, ARMENPRESS reports, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General, the founding chairman of the international political consulting organization Rasmussen Global, told the journalists.
"We must do everything to reach a lasting and just peace treaty. A very important element in that agreement should be the guarantee of the rights and security of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh. And to guarantee these rights and security, we must have international mechanisms that will monitor, control and guarantee them," he said.
Referring to Armenia-EU relations, Rasmussen mentioned that they would like to cooperate very closely with the Armenian government.
"It will be a broad cooperation that will touch on broad topics. Naturally, we are talking about political support from the EU. I think that it is very necessary now that we raise awareness that there is a humanitarian crisis in NK. And the international community should put maximum pressure on Azerbaijan to resolve this issue," he said.
He emphasized that they want to support the Armenian government to raise the dialogue with the EU to an even higher level, which will also include a dialogue on security policy.
"The EU has a wide range of tools that can be useful to Armenia. I think that Armenia needs even more international partners than it has today," he said, noting that military cooperation with Armenia was not discussed in detail.
In conclusion, Anders Fogh Rasmussen noted that the EU has a European peace system, which can also be a framework for cooperation between Armenia and the EU.
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