WHAT WAS VARDAN OSKANYAN DELIGHTED ABOUT?
Lragir
Dec 14 2007
Armenia
The Armenian delegation led by Aram Gaspar Sargsyan has just returned
from Russia where the civil society and political activists and
members of parliament of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
met in the framework of the Dartmouth conference. On December 14 Aram
Gaspar Sargsyan held a news conference and said that the meeting was
regress, mainly because the Azerbaijani delegation has changed its
stance on the framework agreement which had been worked out in the
previous meetings and included a peace settlement of the conflict.
Aram Sargsyan says there is no political resolution and it is possible
to solve the conflict only through a peace process. However, 90 percent
of the members of the Azerbaijani delegation have been replaced,
and their stance has become tougher, which is now based on the new
proposals by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs offered during the OSCE
conference in Madrid, which include return of territories without
defining the status of Karabakh, according to Aram Gaspar Sargsyan.
"The document about which Mr. Oskanyan was so delighted for whatever
reason only included the right for self-determination, the right
of the people for self-determination. If this is our greatest
achievement, I think it is not appropriate for the winner," says
Aram Gaspar Sargsyan. He thinks in this case Armenia should reject
the talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group because the options
under consideration are not pro-Armenian and are unacceptable. "No
territory can be returned for the simple reason that the Azerbaijanis
are reluctant to discuss the issue of the territories with regard to
the Armenian territories," Aram Sargsyan says, adding that they have
brought up the issue of Nakhidjevan for several times in the meetings
in Moscow.