AGAIN YEREVAN THREATENS TO DECLASSIFY

Lragir.am
30 Aug 06

"I did not threaten, sincerely," in an August 30 news conference Victor
Soghomonyan, the speaker of the president of Armenia tried to sound
sincere, when the news reporters reminded him about the statement he
had made after the revelations of Matthew Bryza, and wanted to know
whether Armenia is still willing to declassify the talks.

"Yes, we announced that we are ready to publish all the documents,
i.e. all the documents that have ever been put on the table of
negotiations. I am sure that after publication much will become
clear to many people. In other words, what policies and by whom were
conducted, what and when the negotiators said. It will become clear to
everyone," says Victor Soghomonyan. He repeated the view that Bryza
revealed the talks partly and selectively, creating an impression
that one of the parties is defensive.

"Sooner or later the documents are published, no matter how
confidential they are. Even a hundred years later. And history
will settle everything, and it will be clear who negotiated, how,
on the basis of what principles, what they were ready to give and
take, in short, all this will become known," says the speaker of
Robert Kocharyan. However, he repeats that if more cases of partial
revelations of the talks occur, Yerevan is ready to publish the
contents of the talks at any time. Victor Soghomonyan says in different
years of Robert Kocharyan’s presidency the problem of Karabakh became
a subject of political manipulations, which the speaker considers
impossible to overcome, saying that history will settle everything.

The speaker of president declined to say who according to Yerevan
is to blame for the gridlock in the talks. Victor Soghomonyan says
the problem is to accept the reality as it is. According to him,
everything will change as soon as the conflict parties accept some
realities, including the independence of Nagorno Karabakh.