Stepan Grigoryan: Mutual concessions should be based upon the reconciliation of the sides

ArmRadio.am
20.07.2006 17:05

Attaching importance to the role of experts in the process of
settlement of the Karabakh issue, the "Armenian Association for Peace
and Conflict Studies" and the "Social Communication" Organization
arranged a workshop today, where different opinions on the settlement
of the Karabakh conflict were voiced.

The disclosure of the principles of the Karabakh conflict settlement
by US CO-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza became a matter
of active discussions.

Head of the Chair of Philosophy of Yerevan State University Alexandr
Manasaryan criticized the activity of the OSCE Minsk Group, saying
that the latter have taken an incorrect course, since they try to
somehow resolve the conflict instead of discussing the core of the
problem. In his opinion, the suggestions of the OSCE Minsk Group for
the resolution of the Karabakh conflict are unacceptable. What is
acceptable, is the suggestions of the Dartmouth conference group.

To remind, the agreements of the Dartmouth group were reached
last year between representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan and
Nagorno-Karabakh. Manasyan himself was representing Nagorno Karabakh.

Political scientist Stepan Grigoryan turned to the statement by RF
President Vladimir Putin during the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg,
which, in his opinion, means that the mutual concessions should be
primarily based upon the reconciliation of the sides.

"The document should be signed when the societies are prepared to it,"
the political scientist noted.