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    MUST HAVE A TOUGH STANCE TOWARDS NKR ISSUE
    Lusine Hovhannisyan

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    06 Nov 08
    Armenia

    Leader Of Armenian Democratic Party Aram Sargsyan Believes

    "There are serious contradictions in the adopted declaration which
    will hinder the settlement of the conflict. They have enshrined
    that it must be a political settlement, anchored on the norms of
    the international law. But there are two concepts in the diplomacy:
    either political or legal. They can't appear together.

    Of course it would have been beneficial for us, if it were a legal
    process.

    As regards the political one, in my view it is not possible, because
    one party states that it is their territory and the other side
    states that it is not. This is a real deadlock," Leader of Armenian
    Democratic Party Aram Sargsyan expressed this viewpoint in "Urbat"
    club yesterday touching upon the settlement of NKR conflict and the
    trilateral Armenia-Azerbaijan-Russia declaration.

    In general the leader of the Democratic Party believes the trilateral
    declaration is nothing more than a good will protocol. He doesn't
    share the standpoint of the political figures, political scientists
    and analysts saying that the before mentioned process will bring
    serious changes.

    "The investigation of the past years display that the process will
    take 10 more years."

    As regards the trilateral format of the Moscow meeting and the
    manifestations of "offence" by those who have their own interest in the
    settlement of Karabakh issue (particularly Mathew Braise) Aram Sargsyan
    firstly recorded that the negotiations, which took place in Moscow,
    don't imply any concrete fact and said that it is pointless for Braise
    to take offence: "I don't see any reason to take offence, especially
    because trilateral meetings have already taken place in Key West."

    As regards the fresh events in the USA, the presidential elections,
    and Barrack Obama's victory, Aram Sargsyan doesn't consider Braise's
    paradoxical announcement essential, saying: "He is temporary. The US
    President elect will soon pursue active policy in our region."

    As regards the already pursued active policy by Russia in the Caucasian
    region the leader of the National Democratic Party said: "For this
    moment Russia has already solved its problem and will try to settle
    the issue on its own (of course if they are allowed to do so).

    We should add that according to the speaker: "Even if they try to
    settle the issue based on Madrid principle, anyway it will take
    long.' Which means the freezing of the issue is the most optimal way
    of the settlement.

    I Don't Imagine The Settlement By Means Of Returning The Territories

    Touching upon the liberated territories and the topic of ceding
    the territories he considered it unacceptable even to touch upon
    that topic.

    "I wonder what would Armenia cede in return for NKR's status,
    had Azerbaijan not started a war and had we not liberated our
    territories. And they already cede the liberated territories in
    exchange for the Armenian territories, which still remain under
    Azerbaijan's control."

    In this context when we assess our losses and the victory, the
    liberated territories, Aram Sargsyan says: "In such circumstances
    we must display a tougher stance, otherwise it will turn out that we
    really cede our territories and we don't get anything in return.

    A. Sargsyan attaches great importance to NKR's participation in the
    negotiations on the settlement of NKR conflict. "The conflict will
    not be solved until Karabakh participates in the negotiation process
    thus directly expressing the will and the stance of Arsakh people."
    From: Baghdasarian
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