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| 18:25:45 | 22-09-2005 | Politics |
ARMEN RUSTAMYAN COMMENTING ON UPCOMING REFERENDUM
`I am not against the stepwise settlement if Nagorno Karabakh’s status will
be determined at the initial stage’, Chairman of the Parliamentary
Commission for Foreign Issues Armen Rustamyan stated today in the National
Press Club.
Armen Rustamyan shares the position Armenia holds. If the Karabakh issue is
included in the UN agenda, Armenia will abandon the negotiation process,
which, in his words, does not exist at present. `All we have is meetings and
consultations’, he noted.
When asked whether the failure of the referendum on constitutional
amendments can tell on the Karabakh settlement Armen Rustamyan said, `We
should not mix the referendum with the authorities-opposition relations.’
When commenting on the possible postponement of the referendum he said, `If
we come to conclusion that the atmosphere is not proper for conducting a
referendum we can postpone it.’
At the same time he considers `not a bad document is awaiting the
referendum.’ `If some political forces wish to use the referendum as an
instrument to change the power their attempts will be doomed to failure,
since no European structure will approve such a transformation’, he resumed.