ARMENIA SHOULD GRADUALLY QUIT NEGOTIATION PROCESS, KARABAKH POLITICIANS CONSIDER

PanArmenian News
Dec 20 2004

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The principal part of the conflict remained beyond
the negotiation process. Besides all, we were the belligerent”,
member of the commission for foreign policy of the NKR parliament,
AFR Dashnaktsutyun representative Maxim Mirzoyan considers.
Non-participation of the Karabakh party in the negotiations is not
justified, he said in his interview with Azg Armenian newspaper.
Editor-in-chief of “Demo” newspaper Gegham Baghdsarian says there are
issues “Armenia is not empowered to negotiate on, for example, the
issue of the liberated territories”. Developing the topic, Mirzoian
says that Armenia should categorically state that she will not take
part in the talks without Nagorno Karabakh. Moreover, Armenia should
gradually quit the negotiation process, leaving Stepanakert and
Baku at the bargaining table”. Karabakh political scientist Murad
Petrosian is of the same opinion: “Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanian’s statement that if Baku brings forward the discussion of
the issue in the UN Armenia will quit the negotiation process should
have been made still in 1994”, he says.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress