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    "KOCHARIAN FRUSTRATED AZERBAIJAN'S HOPES"

    http://a1plus.am/en/politics/2010/03/ 29/galust-sahakyan
    07:33 pm | March 29, 2010

    Politics

    "Azerbaijani side tolerated Karabakh's participation in the talks by
    1997 as it saw that Armenian leadership lacked resolution and even
    imagined Karabakh in the territory of Azerbaijan. But things changed
    after 1998," head of the Republican Party (HHK) Galust Sahakyan
    told A1+.

    With the arrival of Kocahrian's "resolute team" in 1998, Azerbaijan
    realized that Karabakh can no longer remain in the territory of
    Azerbaijan and hence toughened its position and wanted to negotiate
    only with Armenia.

    In reply to A1+'s remark that Karabakh's withdrawal from the talks is
    thus connected with the name of Robert Kocahrian who is said to have
    forced the country out of the talks, Mr. Sahakyan said: "No, I do not
    mean that. Karabakh did not participate in earlier meetings of the two
    countries' heads and no document on a trilateral meeting was signed."

    When reminded of three-lateral negotiations in Helsinki in 1997
    mentioned by Armenia's ex Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanian
    earlier today, Mr. Sahakyan said: "The negotiations were not held
    in the framework of a meeting between the countries' heads. In
    fact, Karabakah participated in the signing of ceasefire in 1994
    thus becoming a participant of the talks but to blame Kocahrian for
    shouldering the responsibility and representing Karabakh in the talks
    is a slander, a provocation. I support the statement issued by the
    office of Armenia's second President Robert Kocharian today."

    The statement read that Karabakh withdraw from the negotiations before
    Kocahrian came to power.

    "The Karabakh conflict cannot be settled without Karabakh's direct
    participation in the talks," concluded Mr. Sahakyan.
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