Mnatsakanyan:  EU member states and Eastern partner countries should  resolutely withhold all activities contributing to arms race

ArmInfo. Armenia is committed to the exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the internationally agreed format of the OSCE Minsk  Group co-chairmanship, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan  stated in his speech at the 10th Informal Dialogue of the Ministers  of Foreign Affairs of the Eastern Partnership Countries on June 22,  the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia informs. 

According to him sustainable peace remains a challenge to our region.  The status and security of Nagorno-Karabakh are the overarching  priorities of Armenia. The environment conducive to peace is crucial  for enhancing the effectiveness of the negotiation process and should  be given a prominence. Escalation along the Line of Contact between  Nagorno- Karabakh and Azerbaijan and along the border between Armenia  and Azerbaijan, war mongering and the hate rhetoric, denial of  genuine people to people contacts should be firmly rejected.  At the  same time Mnatsakanyan stressed that both EU member states and  Eastern partner countries should resolutely withhold all activities  contributing to the arms race in the region and tolerating actions,  which undermine the peace process or challenge the agreed format of  negotiations. "The concept and message of Eastern Partnership is  pertinent and reinforcing in reiterating Armenia's commitment to  peace", Mnatsakanyan concluded.  To note, it became known in the  early June that Belarus supplies "Polonez" MLRS and LORA to  Azerbaijan.  Another scandal related to supplies of weapons to  Azerbaijan involved the Czech Republic in the end of previous year.  It became known then that the Czech weapons were delivered to  Azerbaijan through Slovakia's territory.