ALIYEV WILL REJECT OUR COMPROMISE
Lragir, Armenia
July 17 2007
Azerbaijan fails to use its oil factor to reach success regarding the
Karabakh issue, stated Republican Member of Parliament Armen Ashotyan
July 17 at the Hayeli Club. He said Azerbaijan’s oil and gas trump
cards will start weakening in two decades. Ashotyan’s opponent, the
editor-in-chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak Daily Nicol Pashinyan held
another opinion.
"Azerbaijan is not interested in this type of resolution of the
Karabakh issue in this stage because the Aliyev family has adopted
the following policy on the Karabakh issue. Unfortunately, there is a
difference in the range of thinking. By saying the issue of Karabakh
Azerbaijan means not only the Karabakh issue but also the issue
of Armenia. Meanwhile, Armenia, all of us mean the Karabakh issue,
only the Karabakh issue when we consider the Karabakh issue.
Unfortunately, Azerbaijan succeeded in using the Karabakh issue
to isolate Armenia in the region," Nicol Pashinyan says, adding
that Azerbaijan will not be interested in resolving the Karabakh
issue unless Kars-Akhalkalaki is built, the energy programs become
crystallized.
Pashinyan says the Armenian government is restricted by the Karabakh
issue because it set a difficult hindrance of resolution, namely
a territory of 8 thousand square kilometers, and now we cannot
give up on it. He thinks time works for Azerbaijan, and if now the
Armenian government proposes a peace agreement based on a compromise
on territories, Aliyev will reject it because Azerbaijan is step by
step enhancing its international importance. Armen Ashotyan admits that
the Armenian government is restricted but he states it differently.
"It is restricted because it set a high moral, political, legal
benchmark and a retreat will endanger the national interests. It is
not a restriction, it is a principle. Any principle restricts a person,
any system of values, no lying, no stealing. There can be no bargaining
on the Karabakh issue. This is the principle," Armen Ashotyan says.