Opposition accuses Armenia of sidelining Karabakh from conflict settlement
Mediamax news agency
1 Feb 05
YEREVAN
“The Armenian authorities are using authoritarian methods in the
settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict,” said a statement read
out at the opening of a round table in Yerevan today.
The round table was arranged at the initiative of three opposition
politicians of Armenia – the chairman of the National Democratic Union
(NDU), Vazgen Manukyan; the leader of the Self-Determination
Association, Paruyr Ayrikyan; and the political secretary of the Union
of Socialists Forces and Intelligentsia, Ashot Manucharyan.
“Unsettled relations between the Armenian Republic and Artsakh
(Nagornyy Karabakh), as well as the unclear responsibility of the two
Armenian states for foreign and domestic policies, have not only
sidelined the Artsakh authorities and public but also made domestic
policies of Armenia and Artsakh exposed to mutual interference,” said
the statement read out by Ayrikyan.
The participants in the round table expressed their conviction that
the Armenian and Artsakh public should possess “mechanisms of stable
control over decision-making at government bodies”.