OSCE MG FREEZES NK PEACE RROCESS: ANM MEMBER
ARMINFO News Agency
September 19, 2006 Tuesday
The OSCE MG has frozen the Karabakh peace process and the problem has
been transferred to other international organizations, particularly,
to the UN, says the representative of the formerly ruling Armenian
National Movement party David Shahnazaryan.
The OSCE MG will make no new proposals and the old ones parrot the
stage-by-stage scenario – which is against Armenia’s interests. The
situation is turning against the Armenian side.
The Karabakh problem is lost chess game of the present authorities.
Azerbaijan has pushed its resolution on occupied territories into the
UN agenda, Azeri refugees are going to appeal to the European Court
for getting compensation from Armenia. "And what is the Armenian
side doing? Nothing." Instead of using its lobby in the US to push a
resolution on the destruction of cultural monument in Nakhichevan and
other documents into the UN agenda, Yerevan is keeping silence and uses
its lobby just to hold actions against the change of the US ambassador
to Armenia. "They are acting like rabbits!" says Shahnazaryan.
He says that under present condition the Nagorno Karabakh authorities
should say that Armenian President Robert Kocharyan does not represent
their official position and only then will the international community
agree to involve Nagorno Karabakh in the negotiating process. But
instead the NK authorities are passively watching the process.
As a result of the present regime’s policy Armenia has become a toy in
the hands of super powers, but, unlike Azerbaijan, it is uninteresting
and useless toy. The building of the Kars-Tbilisi rail will put Armenia
in full isolation. The present regime’s policy is delaying the Karabakh
peace process giving Azerbaijan time for gaining strength. If this
policy continues the international community will impose a solution
on Yerevan and Yerevan will have to accept it.
The situation is moving towards war and unless the Armenian authorities
want it they will have to accept the unacceptable stage-by-stage
scenario. If in 90s this scenario could give Armenia big dividends
now the country may get only the stoppage of the Kars-Tbilisi project.
Shahnazaryan sees just one way out of the situation – the change of
the present criminal regime led by Kocharyan.