“MILITARY SUCCESS NECESSARY TO STRENGTHEN BY POLITICAL SUCCESS,” BABKEN
ARARKTSIAN SAYS

YEREVAN, MARCH 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The peaceful process of the Karabakh
conflict settlement entered deadlock. Babken Ararktsian, the former
Speaker of the Armenian Parliament (1991-1998), the Chairman of the
“Armat” (root) organization stated about this at the meeting taken
place on March 10 at the National Press Club.

According to him, in the Karabakh problem the authorities of Armenia
had a goal to prolong the negotiations anyway, thus, to keep the
created status-quo, and in the case of fail of the negotiations, to
use tone of an ultimatum and state that Armenia will recognize the
Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.

Babken Ararktsian excluded the possibility of the international
pressure both on Armenia and on Azerbaijan: “They’ll put pressure if
they are interested, but this issue isn’t their one, and they want the
conflict sides to solve the issue.”

According to Ararktsian, the time works for Azerbaijan which actively
uses all its possibilities in different international instances and
initiates adoption of a number of new documents, which, like the new
“terms about the aggressor and the occupied territories,” are spread
in international spheres.

He expressed confidence that it’s necessary to strengthen the military
success by political success what wasn’t implemented, and the role and
influence of military successes weaken during the time.

Babken Ararktsian attached special importance to the participation of
Nagorno Karabakh in the negotiation process.