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    "Armenia has no policy on the Karabakh conflict"

    A1+
    12:02 pm | September 28, 2010 | Interview


    Head of the "Heritage" faction, political scientist Stepan Safaryan
    views the field evaluation mission headed by the OSCE Minsk Group
    Co-Chairs in the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh from October
    4-14 as inadmissible.

    "A1+": Mr. Safaryan, what is your biggest concern about this mission?

    Stepan Safaryan: I am concerned about the report that will be prepared
    after the mission. Regardless of the content, just the title of the
    report (the mission was held in the "seized territories of
    Azerbaijan") is enough to say that there will be problems with
    granting another status to those territories.

    "A1+": Do you see any connection between this mission and Azerbaijan
    taking back the resolution on the "Situation in the seized territories
    of Azerbaijan" from the agenda of the 64th UN General Assembly
    session?

    S. S.: This was the same situation in 2007 when Azerbaijan presented
    another draft resolution on the "Situation in the seized territories
    of Azerbaijan" during another session of the UN General Assembly. As
    the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and former RA Foreign Minister Vardan
    Oskanyan confessed later, the discussion of that resolution was taken
    out of the UN General Assembly's agenda just because the Armenian side
    had agreed to send a fact-finding mission to the liberated
    territories.

    "A1+": Why aren't the Armenian authorities claiming to implement a
    similar mission in the Armenian territories under Azerbaijan's
    control?

    S. S.: The Armenian authorities have no policy or demand in relation
    to the Karabakh conflict. They have left it all up to the
    international community, including the recognition of Artsakh's status
    and they only agree to one proposal or, in the best case scenario,
    they can reject those proposals. The reason is because Armenia doesn't
    know what kind of policy it is leading. Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan has
    a very clear-cut policy on the Karabakh conflict. It is trying to fix
    its right not only in the liberated territories, but Karabakh itself
    step by step through reports and organizations.

    "A1+": What is it that the Armenian government can do and is not doing?

    S. S.: "Heritage" faction sees only one solution. In order to put an
    end to the reports on the liberated territories belonging to
    Azerbaijan at the level of international organizations and the
    dangerous processes, Armenia simply has to recognize the NKR with the
    borders by which it was declared an independent state.
    Interview by Victoria Abrahamyan




    From: A. Papazian
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