ROBERT KOCHARYAN MAY FACE THE LOT OF EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE: ARMENIAN MP

YEREVAN, MARCH 7. ARMINFO. If Nagorny Karabakh President Arkady
Ghoukassyan continues insisting on Armenia’s leaving the peace
talks, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan may face the lot of
Eduard Shevardandze, says Armenian MP, political scientist Hamayak
Hovhanissyan.

Kocharyan’s advent into power was due the wish of the international
political centers to have one man representing Armenia and Nagorny
Karabakh and thereby to weaken the position of the Armenian side. Now
the Armenian and Nagorny Karabakh presidents are showing strong
differences concerning the future of the negotiating process and
if Ghoukassyan sticks to his position Kocharyan may prove no longer
necessary for the international political centers.

Hovhannissyan says that the positive tendencies for giving priority
to the self-determination principle may serve Nagorny Karabakh only
if Armenia can restore the membership of the Budapest Summit 1994.