ACCORDING TO YERJANIK ABGARIAN, DANGER OF RESTARTING ARTSAKH WAR IS
BECOMING STRONGER
YEREVAN, JUNE 29, NOYAN TAPAN. According to political scientist
Alexandre Manasian, the promotion of the Armenian side concerning the
Karabakh conflict is developing in the wrong direction. He mentioned
during the June 29 debate with Yerjanik Abgarian, a member of the
"Alternative" political NGO, that as a result of a wrong promotion "a
situation has been created where we are considered to be usurpers of
the territories belonging to us." In Alexandre Manasian’s opinion, the
approach, according to which Armenia is fighting for the
self-determination of Artsakh, is not right, either, as in that case it
would mean that Armenia accepts the fact that the Republic of Nagorno
Karabakh is a part of Azerbaijan. In the political scientist’s
conviction, it would be right if Armenia accepted and introduced to
other countries that currently only consultations are being conducted
between Yerevan and Baku in order to continue the triple side
negotiations interrupted some years ago.
As for Yerjanik Abgarian, he believes that "Turks are not good
diplomats, the thing is that there are no good ones to interact with."
He also observed that currently "those, who are not lazy" in the
international scene are speaking about the territorial completeness of
Azerbaijan. Y. Abgarian mentioned that the striving for status quo
leaves Armenia out of all international and regional projects. Instead,
he believes, the danger of restarting the Artsakh war is becoming more
and more real: the army of Azerbaijan is quickly arming itself.