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    Haykakan Zhamanak , Armenia
    Nov 1 2008


    The consequences will be unpredictable


    As we reported yesterday, maps of ceding the liberated territories
    [seven Azerbaijani districts around Nagornyy Karabakh], which form
    Nagornyy Karabakh's security belt, are in the hands of a few Armenian
    top military officers.

    A veteran of the Karabakh war, French-Armenian Sargis Hatspanyan, who
    has familiarized himself with these maps yesterday [31 October], told
    Haykakan Zhamanak that there are three options that some people want
    to make us sign. Russia is the author of one option, the USA has drawn
    up the second one, and Europe offers the third option on behalf of
    France. The Defence Ministry, as it appears, carried out an unofficial
    a "line-of-duty investigation" yesterday [31 October] in order to find
    out where the information was "leaked" from. When we asked the Defence
    Ministry spokesman Seyran Shakhsuvaryan to comment on these options,
    he said: "Where are these maps, and who are those top officials? When
    you name them, I will tell." Shakhsuvaryan added: "I have not seen
    anything like that, and there are 50 top officers, none of them have
    seen such a thing."

    [Passage omitted: Shahsuvaryan continues to deny that such documents
    are available and that there are officers who have seen them.]

    The head of the information department of the Nagornyy Karabakh
    president's administration, David Babayan, told us yesterday that,
    when speaking about concessions, it is necessary to by all means take
    into consideration one circumstance - mutual concessions should have
    comparable standards.

    Babayan said: "We cannot give land in exchange for a mere promise or
    even in exchange for opening of the road, because they can close the
    road tomorrow, and we cannot take back the territories, if we return
    them. Also, there are territories on which the future of the Armenian
    people, both in Armenia and Artsakh [Karabakh], depends. The talk is
    particularly about Kalbacar [Azerbaijani district separating Nagornyy
    Karabakh from Armenia, seized by Armenians in 1993]. Eighty-five per
    cent of the water resources of the former Nagornyy Karabakh Autonomous
    Region start here, like two vital points for Armenia - Arpa and
    Vorotan [rivers] , which prevent the [Armenian] lake Sevan prom from
    drying out. And lake Sevan accounts for 80 per cent of Armenia's water
    resources. Therefore, please understand, if this territory is
    influenced by any hostile aims, the whole Armenian people will face a
    terror, and the results will be unpredictable."

    Babayan said that they understand that there should be concessions,
    but this should be in the framework of comparable categories.
    Territories versus promises is an unacceptable and impossible thing
    for them.

    "Moreover, we also have territories under Azerbaijan's control. One
    should speak about them as well. If we allow even a very small
    incorrect approach in the Karabakh issue, the consequences will be
    unpredictable. War is not beneficial for anyone at present, because
    no-one knows how it will end, and who will win," Babayan said.
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