“ACCORD” MONTHLY PRESENTED IN STEPANAKERT

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 07 2006

STEPANAKERT, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The presentation
of the 17th issue of the “Accord” monthly took place in Stepanakert
on March 3.

This was dedicated to the Karabakh conflict settlement. Representatives
of the “Conciliation Resources” international non-governmental
organization, owing to the financial aid of which the monthly is
published, the NKR Parliament deputies, representatives of the
Foreign Ministry and the non-governmental sectrum, scientists and
journalists, guests from Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Azerbaijan were
present at the presentation. As “Conciliation Resources” Caucasian
Programme Co-Director Jonathan Cohen mentioned, publication of the
given issue of the magazine is an attempt to analyze reaons of the
impasse situation created in the negotiation process. Its goal is
to create conditions for wide discussions. “Accord” Editor Laurence
Broers stated that the presentation of the monthly issue coincided the
difficult period of time for the negotiation process directed to the
Karabakh conflict settlement and the society’s disappointment after
the Rambouillet negotiations. At the same time, he emphasized, that
it’s impossible to get peace without using resources of wide strate
of the society. According to him, today Nagorno Karabakh practically
is out of the negotiation process, and the negotiations were moved
in the Armenia-Azerbaijan format, field of clearing up international
relations. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the NKR Foreign Ministry’s
Information-Analytical Department, attempts of creating false
parallels of the type of “Armenian community of Nagorno Karabakh”
and “Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh,” speculations on
historic facts, moving the conlfict on the Armenia-Azerbaijan field
were particularly mentioned during the discussions. The necessity of
the Nagorno Karabakh participation in negotiations was particularly
emphasized. The monthly’s presentations and wide discussions took
place and are envisaged in Yerevan, Baku, Tbilisi, London, Washington.