PEOPLE OF ARTSAKH DON’T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH GOVERNMENT POSITION ON SETTLEMENT
Arman Gharibyan
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2009/08/04 | 13:36
Politics
At a press conference held today, Heritage Party spokesperson Hovsep
Khurshudyan said that, "Sadly, the Karabakh authorities totally trust
Serzh Sargsyan when it comes to their legitimate rights, and which has
perhaps been mediated by Vazgen Manukyan on behalf of NKR President
Bako Sahakyan."
"We also brought up the issue with the people of Artsakh and we
received an official response from Vahan Atanesyan, President of the
NKR Committee on Foreign Affairs," according to Mr. Khurshudyan stating
that the response was that, "As regards the position of the RoA on
the factual recognition of Karabakh, our view is that as a sovereign
state Armenia chooses its foreign policy agenda and priorities."
Mr. Khurshudyan added that he believed this was quite a correct answer.
Member of the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, Zaruhi Postanjyan,
added that the view of the NKR authorities doesn’t totally correspond
with that of the people of Artsakh and presented the statement of the
young people of Hadrut as an example. "This proves that the people
of Artsakh still think as they did twenty years ago. They have been
operating as an independent country for twenty years and are extending
their authority in those territories," Deputy Postanjyan said.
She added that regarding a settlement of the conflict the people
don’t trust in political forces but in the entire Armenian nation. "No
political force has the authority to reach an agreement on behalf of
our people and to sign any document. That is something for all of us
to decide. When war broke out in the 1990’s and the people of Artsakh
had to defend themselves, no political force adopted a decision to
do so. All of us participated, our people participated and I trust
in the people."