Council of Europe resolution unacceptable to Karabakh – leader

Arminfo
28 Jan 05

YEREVAN

The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
PACE contains provisions that are unacceptable to Nagornyy Karabakh,
the president of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic NKR , Arkadiy
Gukasyan, has told journalists in Yerevan.

The NKR president pointed out that he does not think that the
resolution can be of some fateful importance to Karabakh. At the same
time, Arkadiy Gukasyan said that the diplomacy of the Armenian side
should be more active in order to avoid such statements and
approaches.

“I think that David Atkinson’s speech was very subjective and
inconsistent with the current situation,” Gukasyan stressed, adding
that it is necessary to take political steps to neutralize such
approaches. He also said that he had appealed to the leadership of the
Council of Europe and David Atkinson, demanding that the presence of
Nagornyy Karabakh representatives be ensured when the report was
discussed.

Gukasyan said that the absence of NKR representatives from the
discussion of the Karabakh issue is absolutely not
understandable. “This was also a very subjective approach. There are
examples when the NKR leadership took part in sittings of the Council
of Europe in 1994 and 1998 and defended its approaches,” the president
recalled.