ARKADY TER-TADEVOSYAN (COMMANDOS): BISHKEK PROTOCOL OF 1994 ‘BRIGHT’ DEFEAT OF ARMENIAN DIPLOMACY
ArmInfo
2010-09-28 17:04:00
ArmInfo. “Facing Azerbaijan’s atrocity with regard to the Armenian
people we took arms and went to protect ourselves and not to conquer,”
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Commandos), Major General, Hero of the Karabakh
War, said in a press conference in Yerevan.
“We were afraid, we did not know how to war, we were pressed,
expelled and annihilated. They tried to do in Karabakh what they did
in Nakhchivan. We were then in a heavy state. But we learnt to protect
ourselves, accumulated necessary military experience and managed to
strike back the enemy,” he said. At the same time, A. Ter-Tadevosyan
harshly criticized the actions by the Armenian authorities of that
period and said: “Armenia was suffering defeats in the field of
diplomacy while we were gaining victory in battle.
“Then Turkey prepared all the diplomatic documents of Azerbaijan. We
were not only suffering defeat in diplomacy, our diplomats and
government helped them,” Commandos said. He called the Bishkek Treaty
of 1994 a “bright” defeat of the Armenian diplomacy. “When Azerbaijan
asked for suspension of military actions, Karen Baburyan and Babken
Ararktsyan signed a treaty under which Armenia pledge to withdraw
troops from the conquered territories. Why, because it was Turkey’s
demand,” Commandos said. He highlighted that Armenia is still suffering
diplomatic defeats.
From: A. Papazian