NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SHOULD BE SETTLED WITH DUE REGARD FOR INTERESTS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN CONFLICT ZONE: RUSSIAN GENERAL
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 23 2006
Today, General Valentin Varennikov, Chairman of the International
League for the Defense of Human Dignity and Security, told an ArmInfo
correspondent that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should be settled with
due regard for the interests of people living in the conflict zone.
Varennikov said that he had visited the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
zone for many times and knows the problem from within. He said
that the conflict should be settled exclusively in a political way,
and a military solution of the problem is not acceptable. He also
noted that several months ago, the Ambassador at large of the Azeri
President applied to him with the request of establishing an Azeri
National League and asked him to do his best to return the relations
between the Armenian and Azeri nations to the Soviet level.
Varennikov feels flattered for such confidence and is willing to do
all he can.
To note, born in 1923, Valentin Varennikov, a famous Soviet general,
leads the Association of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia. He has
become famous not only for his feats of arms, but also for the fact
that being arrested for participation in the Government Committee of
Emergency State in 1991, he was the only one to reject the amnesty
in 1994. He demanded a trial and was acquitted.