KARABAKH AND ARMENIA SURPRISE BABUKHANYAN

Lragir.am
28 June 06

There are controversies among the OSCE Minsk Group countries, stated
Haik Babukhanyan, Constitutional Right Union, June 28. He says the
publication of details of the negotiations for the settlement of the
conflict over Karabakh by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Mathew Bryza
is due to existing controversies. Announcing this, Haik Babukhanyan
expressed a new political line of the CRU. In fact, Babukhanyan
announced that only Russia is interested in keeping the status quo
in the region.

"We have difficulty in understanding why Armenia and Karabakh which
is under the influence of Armenia are so passive with regard to the
initiatives of the Russian party. In particular, you can see that
over the past two months Russia has announced that it is for keeping
the status quo and, in fact, expressed an official stance that these
states, which emerged after the dissolution of the USSR, also have
the right for self-determination. It was a big change in the stance of
Russia, which changes a lot in the process," states Haik Babukhanyan.

He wonders why Karabakh does not participate in conferences of
unrecognized states, at least as an observer. Haik Babukhanyan cannot
understand this.