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    ALIYEV WILL REJECT OUR COMPROMISE

    Lragir, Armenia
    July 17 2007

    Azerbaijan fails to use its oil factor to reach success regarding the
    Karabakh issue, stated Republican Member of Parliament Armen Ashotyan
    July 17 at the Hayeli Club. He said Azerbaijan's oil and gas trump
    cards will start weakening in two decades. Ashotyan's opponent, the
    editor-in-chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak Daily Nicol Pashinyan held
    another opinion.

    "Azerbaijan is not interested in this type of resolution of the
    Karabakh issue in this stage because the Aliyev family has adopted
    the following policy on the Karabakh issue. Unfortunately, there is a
    difference in the range of thinking. By saying the issue of Karabakh
    Azerbaijan means not only the Karabakh issue but also the issue
    of Armenia. Meanwhile, Armenia, all of us mean the Karabakh issue,
    only the Karabakh issue when we consider the Karabakh issue.

    Unfortunately, Azerbaijan succeeded in using the Karabakh issue
    to isolate Armenia in the region," Nicol Pashinyan says, adding
    that Azerbaijan will not be interested in resolving the Karabakh
    issue unless Kars-Akhalkalaki is built, the energy programs become
    crystallized.

    Pashinyan says the Armenian government is restricted by the Karabakh
    issue because it set a difficult hindrance of resolution, namely
    a territory of 8 thousand square kilometers, and now we cannot
    give up on it. He thinks time works for Azerbaijan, and if now the
    Armenian government proposes a peace agreement based on a compromise
    on territories, Aliyev will reject it because Azerbaijan is step by
    step enhancing its international importance. Armen Ashotyan admits that
    the Armenian government is restricted but he states it differently.

    "It is restricted because it set a high moral, political, legal
    benchmark and a retreat will endanger the national interests. It is
    not a restriction, it is a principle. Any principle restricts a person,
    any system of values, no lying, no stealing. There can be no bargaining
    on the Karabakh issue. This is the principle," Armen Ashotyan says.
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