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IN SOCIOLOGIST AHARON ADIBEKIAN'S WORDS, ARTSAKH POPULATIONDOES NOT WORRY ABOUT DANGER OF WAR RESUMPTION
Noyan Tapan
Jun 20 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Aharon Adibekian, the Head of the
Sociometer sociological center, reported in his interview to a Noyan
Tapan correspondent that Karabakh, today, looks like a building site:
new hotels and roads are being built, gardens are being planted,
and schools are being repaired.
It should be mentioned that the center has held sociological surveys
about the forthcoming presidential elections and possible variants
of Nagorno Karabakh settlement lately in Nagorno Karabakh. In
A. Adibekian's words, today Karabakh is striving to register economic
growth, and the local population does not worry about the danger of
the resumption of war for several reasons: the NKR army is the most
battle-worthy in the region and Azerbaijan is too vulnerable to take
military action.
Besides, as A. Adibekian mentioned, in the case of such conflicts,
a liberated country never returns or is returned to the side from
which it became independent. "China fails to reclaim Taiwan by force,
Georgia fails to reclaim South Ossetia and Abkhazia and so on," the
sociologist said. He said that according to the data of the surveys
conducted by them, only 1% of the people of the NKR wishes to return
to subordination under Azerbaijan receiving a wider autonomy, and 99%
consider that Artsakh should be either independent or should be a
part of Armenia. 8% out of this 99% is ready to cede the liberated
territories for that purpose, whereas 40% considers that being
independent is more preferrable, and 30% is for joining Armenia.
Noyan Tapan
Jun 20 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Aharon Adibekian, the Head of the
Sociometer sociological center, reported in his interview to a Noyan
Tapan correspondent that Karabakh, today, looks like a building site:
new hotels and roads are being built, gardens are being planted,
and schools are being repaired.
It should be mentioned that the center has held sociological surveys
about the forthcoming presidential elections and possible variants
of Nagorno Karabakh settlement lately in Nagorno Karabakh. In
A. Adibekian's words, today Karabakh is striving to register economic
growth, and the local population does not worry about the danger of
the resumption of war for several reasons: the NKR army is the most
battle-worthy in the region and Azerbaijan is too vulnerable to take
military action.
Besides, as A. Adibekian mentioned, in the case of such conflicts,
a liberated country never returns or is returned to the side from
which it became independent. "China fails to reclaim Taiwan by force,
Georgia fails to reclaim South Ossetia and Abkhazia and so on," the
sociologist said. He said that according to the data of the surveys
conducted by them, only 1% of the people of the NKR wishes to return
to subordination under Azerbaijan receiving a wider autonomy, and 99%
consider that Artsakh should be either independent or should be a
part of Armenia. 8% out of this 99% is ready to cede the liberated
territories for that purpose, whereas 40% considers that being
independent is more preferrable, and 30% is for joining Armenia.