KARABAKH’S RECOGNITION ISSUE CANNOT BE DISCUSSED IN CONTEXT OF WAR – FORMER FM

NEWS.AM
March 20, 2013 | 14:10

YEREVAN. – Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s view on
Nagorno-Karabakh is more convincing than the statements that it
is indispensable to immediately recognize the independence of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Armenia’s ex-presidential candidate,
NKR former FM Arman Melikyan said this during a press conference
on Wednesday.

In Melikyan’s words, however, Sargsyan’s view is not so clear.

“He says we [that is, Armenia] will recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic if war breaks out and Azerbaijan launches military
operations. That is, Karabakh’s independence turns into something
that depends on war; this is a wrong approach,” Melikyan noted.

In his view, a parallel process needs to be started toward the
recognition of NKR.

“And this process will convert NKR’s recognition into a political
agenda matter, not into an issue of war,” Melikyan stressed, and added
that there exist diplomatic and political methods, by whose assistance
a de facto independence can be turned into a de jure independence.

From: Baghdasarian