EITHER EVERYTHING OR NOTHING

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[08:38 pm] 29 June, 2006

The OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs announced that "At present the two
sides had better involve their publics into healthy discussions on
multiple opinions on the Karabakh issue."

The first step was done by the Minsk group American Co-Chair Mettew
Bryza when the latter made public certain details of the negotiation
packet. "If the moment has come and in Mettew Bryza’s opinion it is
necessary to keep the public aware people must be aware of everything
fully."

They must know either everything or nothing," claims Armen Roustamyan,
Armenian delegate to the PACE.

According to him certain chosen details from the packet may not
contribute to the conflict settlement, just on the contrary, they
may hamper it.

"If we decide that all the discussions must be made public and if the
moment when the public must be involved in the process has matured it
must be done completely as half-done work may hinder the matter," said
the Deputy of Dashnaktsutyun Party meaning the mediators by his words.

Stepan Demirchyan, leader of the "Justice" faction also thinks that
it is high time the negotiation packet was made public so that people
could know what is going on.

"Besides making the packet public it should also be revealed when and
why any of the sides refused this or that proposal," maintains Tigran
Torosyan, RA NA Speaker. He is convinced that partial presentation
will distort the general picture of the negotiations but it must be
done "only after serious discussions."

"If the time has matured to reveal the side breaching the negotiation
process full information must be presented to the society," claims
the head of the RA delegation.

The latter thinks that the international organisations are wrong in
neglecting the militaristic position of Azerbaijan and the hostility
towards Armenians which is deepening day by day which is dictated by
the country authorities.

"By the time the international community and the structures engaged
in the conflict settlement realise that the deepening preaching,
hostility towards Armenians and the militaristic attitude towards
the conflict settlement are incompatible they will undoubtedly appear
in the Azeri net and the conflict can never be settled in this way,"
said Tigran Torosyan.