DISCUSSIONS ON TOPIC “DIPLOMACY FOR SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
AND THE PROBLEM OF STATE CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA AND NAGORNY KARABAKH”
AT HOTEL YEREVAN
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1. ARMINFO. The current format of negotiations for
settlement of Karabakh conflict has not exhausted yet, it does not
allow maneuvers either, say the participants of discussions on the
topic “Diplomacy for settlement of Karabakh conflict and the problem
of state construction of Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh” held at the
Hotel Yerevan, Tuesday.
Leader of the National-Democratic Union, MP Vazgen Manukyan,
representing the opposition bloc Justice, says that <starting from the
moment of cease-fire in 1994, the Armenian party has suffered
uninterrupted losses in the process of settlement. In particular, if
the public was gathered around the Karabakh problem then, at present
it is ousted from the settlement-process, if the Karabakh conflict was
part of international geo-political processes then, now it is outside
them. The philosophic approaches to the problem have changed. And what
is the most important, if 10 years ago Nagorny Karabakh was a subject
of the negotiations, now, it has become their object. >
In his turn, Leader of the Union Self-Determination party Papuyr
Hairikyan says that ten years ago the whole native public was united
around the Karabakh problem, today, the negotiation process is a
prerogative of several people protecting the interests of groups and
not the national ones. The National Security Council does not
function; the relations between Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh are not
regulated. In these conditions, the role of independent experts
increases, they can create mechanisms of control over state structures
<which got out of national control long ago. > NKR Presidential
Adviser for Foreign Political Affairs Georgiy Petrosyan is sure that
solution is in establishment and triumph of democratic principles,
transparency and honesty of the policy, including foreign
policy. Leader of the Union of Socialist Forces of Armenia Ashot
Manucharyanm in his turn, asks whether the OSCE Minsk Group aims
contribution to the settlement process or it is just an instrument for
containment of negative processes in the South Caucasus.
Head of the NKR Press Club Gegham Baghdasaryan makes rather harsh
statements, in particular, saying that Karabakh must become an active
part of the negotiations, the NKR authorities must be maximum active
in the process, but the present Administration of Stepanakert is
unable to do it, as <there are words only, and there are no acts. >
The meeting-participants decided to continue the discussions in future
as well. Their next meeting may take place in Karabakh. – M-