WE ALL WILL WIN IF WE ACTUALLY CONSIDER KARABAKH AS INALIENABLE PART
OF ARMENIA: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT
YEREVAN, APRIL 11. ARMINFO. “We will all win if we actually consider
Karabakh as an inalienable part of Armenia,” Armenia’s President
Robert Kocharyan said during his meeting with Yerevan State University
students today when asked about the mainland Armenians negative
attitude toward their Karabakh compatriots this particularly referring
to officials of Karabakh origin and on the bad treatment of Karabakh
Armenians to mainland Armenia soldiers serving in Karabakh.
The former problem seems to be tending towards resolution while the
latter part is not a problem at all, says Kocharyan noting that
anecdotes have appeared of late this being a good proof of a problem’s
alleviation. Kocharyan notes that except Defence Minister Serzh
Sargsyan and he there are few Karabakh Armenians in the Armenian
government. But he personally considers himself as much mainland as
Karabakh Armenian. “I have never separated myself from Armenia. It was
I who initiated the Dec 1 1989 decision on reunification [of Armenia
and Karabakh],” says Kocharyan noting that the problem of treatment
towards people from “other territories” is typical of other countries
too.