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    Opposition chides Armenian leadership for foreign policy failures

    Arminfo
    23 Nov 04

    Yerevan, 23 November: The current Armenian leadership has brought
    the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict to deadlock and
    has endangered the possibility of a pro-Armenian solution to this
    problem, representatives of the Armenian opposition said at the
    Armenian National Assembly today.

    The vice-president of the National Unity Party, Aleksan Karapetyan,
    said that the draft resolution of the rapporteur of the Parliamentary
    Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] on Nagornyy Karabakh, David
    Atkinson, which runs counter to the interests of the Armenian side,
    is a result of the "good-for-nothing" foreign policy of the country's
    incumbent authorities.

    Aleksan Karapetyan, a member of the Armenian delegation at the NATO
    Parliamentary Assembly, said that having familiarized himself with the
    agenda of the Rose-Roth seminar to be held in Baku on 25-27 November,
    it became clear that Armenia is not ready to take part in this
    seminar. He said that as a consequence of the short-sighted foreign
    policy of the country's incumbent authorities, Nagornyy Karabakh has
    turned out of a member of the negotiating process into its object.

    For his part, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party and former
    presidential adviser for foreign issues, Aram Sarkisyan, also accused
    the country's leadership of allowing Azerbaijan to include the issue of
    "the occupied territories" in the agenda of the UN General Assembly.

    He said that the best thing the Armenian side can count on during
    the discussion of this issue at the UN General Assembly is the
    establishment of a monitoring group to study "the situation on the
    occupied territories".

    The MP stated that [Armenian President] Robert Kocharyan must report
    "foreign policy failures" to the people and parliament. Aram Sarkisyan
    said that the opposition will organize a round table at the house of
    journalists on 26 November on the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh
    conflict. During the discussions, the opposition will present a plan
    of measures to get out of the current critical situation. At the
    same time, he expressed the hope that under the current authorities,
    it will be difficult to get the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh
    conflict out of the deadlock.
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