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    ARMENIAN MP: OPTIMAL SETTLEMENT OF NK PROBLEM IS PRESERVATION OF STATUS-QUO

    Regnum, Russia
    April 1 2006

    Despite numerous statements that 2006 is auspicious for settlement
    of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the problem will not be settled
    this year, Armenian MP Armen Ashotyan is quoted as saying at a news
    conference on April 1. According to him, proposals on deployment of
    peacekeeping corps in the conflict settlement and staging a referendum
    in Nagorno Karabakh in 15 years are illusions. "We do not know what
    the situation will be in 15 years, what demographic situation will be
    in Nagorno Karabakh. We should not trust our enemies. So, we should
    not hope that the question will be settled in favor of Armenians,"
    the Armenian MP noted and added that, as history has shown, the
    documents signed would not obtain legal basis.

    Armen Ashotyan noted that to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
    several models are proposed, in particular, Nagorno Karabakh joining
    Azerbaijan, its independence or joining Armenia, but all these models
    are inadmissible either for the Armenian, or the Azerbaijani side.

    "The only optimal variant of the problem solution is preserving the
    status quo. In this period it is necessary to increase investments
    in the country, as well as increase human resources in Nagorno
    Karabakh," believes the MP. According to him, political forces in
    Armenia should serve to the interests of international political
    forces. "The question of Nagorno Karabakh should be used for serving
    domestic political interests," noted Armen Ashotyan.

    As the MP thinks, Kosovo's model cannot become a precedent for
    settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. "The statement of the
    Russian side that Kosovo's model can be precedent for settlement of
    ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet territory is disputable for the
    Armenian authorities," believes the MP. If Russia is an interested
    party in settlement of the Ossetian, Transdnestr and Abkhaz conflicts,
    in case of Karabakh conflict the Armenian people is the interested
    party, says Ashotyan.
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