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08:12 pm | July 09, 2011 | Politics
The dialogue between the authorities and the opposition Armenian
National Congress (HAK) reminds the Heritage Party of a serial.
"They are moving forward as in soap operas but politics should not be
mixed with serials," Heritage MP Armen Martirosyan told A1+.
On July 9, the coalition parties formed a working group to start
negotiations with the HAK. It is largely believed that the talks will
start in the next ten days.
Commenting on the activity of the working group, the Heritage member
said, "Nothing will change, the working group cannot solve the
problems in the country. I will not be surprised to know that the
serial ends in a happy ending: the group members will turn out to be
kinsmen who have not met for many years."
Regarding the latest developments in the Karabakh peace talks,
Martirosyan said, "The process that launched in Kazan is continuing
today but I don't think that the sides are ready to sign an agreement
on the key principle. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have told their
societies different things; hence they cannot get closer to the
conflict settlement."
Martirosyan says Karabakh should become a full-fledged party to the
negotiation process otherwise the negotiations will be considered as
illegitimate by the society.
He does not rule out that the conflicting sides might be subject to
greater pressure after the Kazan meeting.
"In the given situation the maintenance of status quo is unfavorable
for Armenia. We do not take real steps towards reaching a final
solution in the Karabakh issue. Armenia should recognize the
independence of Karabakh, resettle the liberated territories and have
Karabakh engaged in the talks," said the Heritage MP.
"Karabakh's involvement in the talks is constituted in two documents.
The first is the 1994 ceasefire agreement with the signature of
Karabakh authorities and the second is the agreement reached in the
Budapest summit in 1996 whereby Karabakh was recognized a full-fledged
party to the negotiating process. We simply need to implement these
decisions.
We stumbled in 1988 when Robert Kocharyan became president of the
Republic of Armenia and began to represent Nagorno Karabakh in the
talks. Perhaps there was nobody to tell him that it was a wrong step,"
said Martirosyan.
http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2011/07/9/armen-martirosyan
08:12 pm | July 09, 2011 | Politics
The dialogue between the authorities and the opposition Armenian
National Congress (HAK) reminds the Heritage Party of a serial.
"They are moving forward as in soap operas but politics should not be
mixed with serials," Heritage MP Armen Martirosyan told A1+.
On July 9, the coalition parties formed a working group to start
negotiations with the HAK. It is largely believed that the talks will
start in the next ten days.
Commenting on the activity of the working group, the Heritage member
said, "Nothing will change, the working group cannot solve the
problems in the country. I will not be surprised to know that the
serial ends in a happy ending: the group members will turn out to be
kinsmen who have not met for many years."
Regarding the latest developments in the Karabakh peace talks,
Martirosyan said, "The process that launched in Kazan is continuing
today but I don't think that the sides are ready to sign an agreement
on the key principle. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have told their
societies different things; hence they cannot get closer to the
conflict settlement."
Martirosyan says Karabakh should become a full-fledged party to the
negotiation process otherwise the negotiations will be considered as
illegitimate by the society.
He does not rule out that the conflicting sides might be subject to
greater pressure after the Kazan meeting.
"In the given situation the maintenance of status quo is unfavorable
for Armenia. We do not take real steps towards reaching a final
solution in the Karabakh issue. Armenia should recognize the
independence of Karabakh, resettle the liberated territories and have
Karabakh engaged in the talks," said the Heritage MP.
"Karabakh's involvement in the talks is constituted in two documents.
The first is the 1994 ceasefire agreement with the signature of
Karabakh authorities and the second is the agreement reached in the
Budapest summit in 1996 whereby Karabakh was recognized a full-fledged
party to the negotiating process. We simply need to implement these
decisions.
We stumbled in 1988 when Robert Kocharyan became president of the
Republic of Armenia and began to represent Nagorno Karabakh in the
talks. Perhaps there was nobody to tell him that it was a wrong step,"
said Martirosyan.