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    ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF RESPONDS TO FORMER FM'S REMARKS ON KARABAKH ISSUE

    news.am
    June 30, 2012 | 11:07

    YEREVAN. - Armenian Presidential Chief of Staff, Master of
    International Law and Diplomacy Vigen Sargsyan specifically wrote
    the following in his Facebook account:

    "I read with surprise Armenia's former FM Vartan Oskanian's evaluations
    on the situation created around the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    problem.

    The author builds the entire text on assumptions, and then he offers
    the reader to accept as fact his conclusion that 'the Karabakh peace
    process is at an impasse.'

    I am also surprised why the author thinks no one understands whom the
    'language' of the Los Cabos statement is addressed to, when he himself
    writes 'it is clearly Azerbaijan which jeopardizes the delicate peace.'

    It is also bizarre that Mr. Oskanian does not 'recall a time when the
    impasse was this much profound.' History has shown that, sometimes,
    seemingly unsolvable problems were solved much easier and faster than
    some conflicts.

    Armenia, as a conscientious negotiator, is doing everything to reach
    a mutual concession. The state's leader has clearly noted the axis
    around which an acceptable solution for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
    can be built. That is to say, Armenia wishes to do everything so that
    the process does not meet an impasse.

    The author writes it is apparent that there is no document which forms
    a basis for negotiations among all sides. But is it not true that the
    [OSCE Minsk Group] Co-Chairing countries stated for the first time
    that the Nagorno-Karabakh's final status must be decided through
    legally binding free expression?

    He himself notes that the documents proposed by the mediators were
    twice unacceptable for the Azerbaijani side.

    Speaking about the impasse, Mr. Oskanian notes that the reason
    for this is 'the increase of unsettled problems.' But Los Cabos'
    'harsh' statement clearly says: 'The achieved progress must become
    an opportunity for ending the activities toward the formation of a
    comprehensive framework for peace."

    Mr. Oskanian believes [US Secretary of State] Madam [Hilary] Clinton
    left Armenia empty-handed, because 'Armenia could not have added
    anything new to what was already accepted in Kazan [, Russia].' [But]
    Armenia accepted nothing in Kazan.

    The primary tone of Mr. Oskanian's view is political, not
    politological. [And] The objective is but one: to give a signal to
    [First President and opposition Armenian National Congress leader]
    Levon Ter-Petrosyan, toward a readiness to cooperate with him."

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