Armenian ex-speaker condemns authorities’ Karabakh policy

Armenian ex-speaker condemns authorities’ Karabakh policy

Mediamax news agency
1 Dec 04

YEREVAN

“Armenia is striving to maintain the status quo and not to take a
final decision on the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict,”
said a statement issued by the Armat [Root] centre for civil and
democratic developments in Yerevan today.

Babken Ararktsyan, chairman of the centre and former speaker of the
Armenian National Assembly, said at the National Press Club today that
as a result of the policy of forces that “have usurped power in
Armenia, the issue of self-determination of the Nagornyy Karabakh
people has transformed into a territorial dispute between Armenia and
Azerbaijan”.

“As a result of an absurd ‘complementarity’ foreign policy and
criminal inactivity of the Armenian leadership, Azerbaijan has managed
to lead its diplomatic attack to a logical end and had the issue on
the situation in ‘the occupied territories’ discussed at the UN
General Assembly,” Ararktsyan said.

“Today, Armenia has found itself in a position when every step is
doomed to failure. The only way out of the situation is a quick
resignation of the incumbent authorities,” Babken Ararktsyan said.