COMPROMISE AND REALISM ONLY OPTIONS FOR KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.09.2006 14:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ One cannot blame Armenia for thinking that Azerbaijan
is not ready or interested in a negotiated peace, Armenian FM Vartan
Oskanian stated at the 61st session of the UN GA, reports the Press
Office of the MFA of Armenia. "Yet, having rejected the other two
compromise solutions that have been proposed over the last 8 years,
they do not want to be accused of rejecting the peace plan on the table
today. Therefore, they are using every means available – from state
violence to international maneuvers – to try to bring the Armenians to
do the rejecting. But Armenia is on record: we have agreed to each of
the basic principles in the document that’s on the table today. Yet, in
order to give this or any document a chance, Azerbaijan can’t think, or
pretend to think, that there is still a military option. There isn’t.
The military option is a tried and failed option.
Compromise and realism are the only real options. The path that
Nagorno Karabakh has chosen for itself over these two decades is
irreversible. Karabakh succeeded in ensuring its self-defense, it
proceeded to set up self-governance mechanisms, and it controls its
borders and its economy. Formalizing this process is a necessary step
toward stability in our region.
Dismissing, as Azerbaijan does, all that has happened in the last 20
years and petulantly insisting that things must return to the way they
were, is not just unrealistic, but disingenuous. Nagorno Karabakh is
not a cause. It is a place, an ancient place, a beautiful garden, with
people who have earned the right to live in peace and without fear. We
ask for nothing more. We expect nothing less," Oskanian summed up.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
