Liberated territores as compensation

[Vasilian Manouk]

Lragir, Armenia
Nov 23 2006

LIBERATED TERRITORIES AS COMPENSATION

The territories liberated during the Karabakh war, the return of
which is negotiated, should be viewed as a compensation for the
genocide, stated November 23 the leader of the Ramkavar Party
Harutiun Arakelyan. He stated at the Friday Club that their political
party is the only party which considers that a genocide of Armenians
took place in Azerbaijan.

`We think these territories should be kept as a compensation for the
Genocide. And we have stated for a number of times to Vardan Oskanyan
that they shelled our cities Goris and Kapan. We did not shell their
Kirovabad, Baku, Sumgait. Armenia suffered losses, the economy was
ruined, there was a blockade. In other words, we are not using this
trump card,' says Harutiun Arakelyan.

According to him, `Armenia is playing the game set by the
Azerbaijanis, opposing territorial integrity to the rights of
nations.'

`We think that we must put forward the question of the Genocide and
these territories as a compensation for the Genocide,' says the
leader of the Ramkavar Party.