Armenians concerned about Karabakh peace process – opinion poll

Arminfo
21 Dec 04

Yerevan, 21 December: According to an opinion poll conducted by the
Armenian centre for the strategic and national studies, 49 per cent
of experts and 41 per cent of ordinary participants have expressed
their concern about the current stage of the peaceful settlement of
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. Hundred independent domestic experts
and 2,002 residents of Yerevan and all regions of the republic were
the respondents in the opinion poll.

None of the participants in the opinion poll expressed their
satisfaction with the current stage of the peaceful settlement of the
Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, the centre’s expert, Stepan Safaryan,
said today. He added that 24 per cent of the experts thought that
the inclusion of the term “the occupied territories” in the UN
agenda will lead to sanctions pertaining to Armenia and Nagornyy
Karabakh. Eighteen per cent of the ordinary participants in the
opinion poll were convinced that this will draw the attention of the
international community to the demands of the Armenian side.

As for the prospects for sending the Armenian peace-keepers to Iraq,
67 per cent of the experts and 70 per cent of the ordinary citizens
were against this initiative. Thirty one per cent of the experts
believe that this poses threat to the lives of the Armenians living
in Iraq, while 32 per cent of the remaining part of the participants
think that this action will turn Armenia into a target for the Islamic
terrorists, Safaryan said.