LIBERATION SOLDIERS CALL AMBASSADORS

Lragir.am
27 July 06

The civic action group of the veterans of Karabakh liberation war
addressed an open letter July 27 to the ambassadors of the countries
mediating the talks over Karabakh, and the countries, which are
engaged in regional developments. The letter was presented at the
Pastark Club by Mikael Apresyan, the commander of the squad Artsakh,
and Arkady Karapetyan, the leader of Yerkrapah Union of liberation
soldiers of Karabakh.

"The beginning of the 21st century is not the end of the 20th
century for the winner country to surrender its territories,
its historical territories," runs the letter addressed to the
ambassadors. The liberation soldiers disagree with the standpoint of
the government of Armenia and announce that they are against concession
of territories. According to him, none of the points of the proposal
on settlement favors Armenia.

"We think you know the Armenian history and the Turkish-Armenian
relations over the past few centuries, and we are hopeful that you
will have your contribution to the recognition of the righteous
claim of the Armenian people to its historical homeland by the
international community in the framework of the agreement signed in
Sevres accepted internationally," the veterans of Artsakh war call
the ambassadors. They even emphasize in the letter that "the opinion
of the present government on this question does not correspond with
the opinion of the Armenian people."

Besides, Arkady Karapetyan explains why the ambassadors remind
about the agreement of Sevres. "Why did we emphasize the agreement
of Sevres, because the agreement of Sevres is legitimate and
was signed in accordance with all the international rules," says
Arkady Karapetyan. They must return everything they took from us,
under the international law, he says. According to him, the cause
of this situation is that Armenia does not have diplomacy. "There
are principles in the world, we are the winner and we must speak
differently than they. If we had diplomacy, these questions would
not occur. We do not have [a diplomacy], therefore such problems
occur," Arkady Karapetyan says. The veterans of the liberation war
say they did not choose the time of this statement accidentally.
Soon vacations start, and they wanted to provide the government and
the mediators with a topic to think about.