ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Jan 26 2005

Report of David Atkinson will not have special influence on Karabakh
negotiations – RA MFA

RA and NKR presidents discuss Karabakh conflict settlement process

“NATO CMX-2005 exercises started today

Azerbaijan transfers the discussions around the Karabakh conflict
issue into the course of public parliamentary discussions

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REPORT OF DAVID ATKINSON WILL NOT HAVE SPECIAL INFLUENCE ON KARABAKH
NEGOTIATIONS – RA MFA

YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. Report of David Atkinson will not have
special influence on Karabakh negotiations, RA MFA Press Secretary
Hamlet Gasparian told ARKA. According to him, passed resolution does
not have obligatory legal character, it is declarative and of
recommendation. Gasparian noted that report of Atkinson along with
positive sides is in the whole imperfect because considers
consequences of Karabakh conflict and does not go deep in its
reasons. He also noted that the process of implementation of changes
to the report was not objective.
According to Gasparian, RA MFA welcomes the principles again
strengthened the report according to which namely `independence of
territory and its separation can be achieved only by peaceful process
based on support of the population of the territory» and `the issue
cannot have military settlement. Future of the population and its
status should be determined by the population itself’. The change
made by Armenian delegation which reminds Armenian commitment to CE
on use of influence on Karabakh Armenians for achievement of
conflict’s settlement is also important. `Thus it is accepted that
Karabakh conflict is the conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and
Azerbaijan’, Gasparian said.
Resolution on report of D.Atkinson was passed on Jan 26 by majority
of votes – 123 voted for and only 7 deputies against. The document
will be soon discussed in Ministers Committee. L.D. -0 –

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RA AND NKR PRESIDENTS DISCUSS KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT PROCESS

YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. RA and NKR presidents discussed Karabakh
conflict settlement process, RA President’s press office told ARKA.
The parties discussed socio-economic situation in Nagorno Karabakh
and realization of cooperation programs between Armenia and NKR for
2005. L.D. -0 –

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NATO CMX-2005 EXERCISES STARTED TODAY

YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. NATO CMX-2005 exercises started today,
RA Ministry of Defense Press Secretary Seiran Shakhsuvarian told
ARKA. The goal of the exercises is practical training of procedures
of crisis management, including cooperation of civil and military
bodies, for support and increase of readiness of NATO to work in
crisis conditions. The scenario of exercises will have hypothetical
character and include conduction of operation on settlement of crisis
between two fictitios states outside NATO region in the frames of UN
mandate. Servicemen and civilian representatives of 26
country-members and of 7 country-partners – Austria, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Croatia, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and
Macedonia – will take part in the exercises. Representatives of UN,
EU and OSCE invited as an observers.
Exercises will be coordinated from NATO base in Brussels, last 7 days
and end on Feb 1.
NATO group of experts on crisis management visited Yerevan for the
first time on Nov 23-25, 2004. L.D. -0

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AZERBAIJAN TRANSFERS THE DISCUSSIONS AROUND THE KARABAKH CONFLICT
ISSUE INTO THE COURSE OF PUBLIC PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS

YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. For the recently period Azerbaijan
transfers the discussions around the Karabakh conflict issue from the
specialized expert groups into the course of public parliamentary
discussions, as the Vice-Speaker of RA NA Vahan Hovhannisyan told
ARKA. According to him, it’s to the best advantage to Azerbaijan,
since expert groups like OSCE Minsk Group, probe into the issue and
the cause-effect relations deeply, and their conclusions often are
closer to the reality. As a result, according to Hovhannisyan, the
conclusions cause irritation and abrupt reaction on the part of
Azerbaijan, because the conclusions being close to the objective
reality mostly reflect the point of view of the Armenian side that is
close to human values. According to him, this explains the desire of
Azerbaijan to take the discussions to the spheres and organizations
possessing not enough information and being guided by political
conjuncture and by what moments and situations demand. `Mainly, those
are parliamentary organizations having even no technical possibility
to make use of the accumulated experience of the expert groups’, RA
NA Vice-Speaker noted. A.H. –0 –
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