THESE ARE GAMES, IT WILL ONLY TAKE SOME TIME

Lragir.am
12 July 06

Elections give rise to disagreement, and they should not be conducted
in Karabakh, announced Jirayr Sefilyan, the commander of the battalion
of Shushi July 12 at the National Press Club. The reporter of the
Lragir tried to find out the attitude of Jirayr Sefilyan as a former
soldier of the liberation war towards the situation in Karabakh where
there are increasing doubts that Arkady Ghukasyan is likely to run
a third term.

"Generally I am against holding elections in Karabakh. Besides,
I am against Armenians viewing Karabakh as a separate state. It is
self-deception. Karabakh is a front. It is wrong to conduct elections
on the front, it gives rise to disagreement," says Jirayr Sefilyan. He
mentions that if everything had depended on him, Karabakh would have
united with Armenia long ago.

"For holding elections there, nothing can be expected there as long as
the situation here does not change. It will be decided in Yerevan. In
other words, the government of Artsakh is not independent to do
something good there and bring it here. No. They obey the ones that are
here. The famous pair, their pageboys," says Jirayr Sefilyan. Jirayr
Sefilyan evaluates Seyran Ohanyan’s statement in this context, who
said, in fact, that the liberated territories should be returned.

"Seyran Ohanyan repeats what Serge Sargsyan says. He carries out
Serge’s orders because it was beyond him to resign on these days.

If he does not resign, he has to obey the orders of the minister. I
would say so. But Seyran Ohanyan, ministers or presidents do not
matter. And Seyran knows this, everybody knows, and time will prove
this. Simply I am sorry for Seyran because Seyran is one of the few
commissioned officers who, I felt, are true Armenians." Jirayr Sefilyan
believes that Ohanyan knows he is going along the wrong way, at the
same time he thinks that these are games, it will only take some time.