RPA LEADER FORECASTS NK PROBLEM’S SOLUTION IN 2012

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 6 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The outcome of the meeting of the
Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in Moscow on October 6
fully depends on Azerbaijan’s position, on whether it will state
a willingness to continue the negotiations from the point at which
they were discontinued. Spartak Seyranian, member of the RA National
Assembly ARF faction and the ARF Armenia Supreme Board, expressed
this opinion at the October 6 briefing.

As regards the statement that the EU Special Representative to the
South Caucasus Peter Semneby recently made in Brussels to the effect
that Armenia and Azerbaijan are playing for time in the issue of the
Karabakh conflict, S. Seyranian noted that as a rule, statements of
representatives of international structures involved in the settlement
process are based on "the subjective notions or impressions of the
given person concerning some issue." In his opinion, "no statement
made by an official reflects the real state of affairs."

According to the secretary of the Justice faction Grigor Harutyunian,
"there are always great expectations" prior to any meeting held within
the framework of negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh problem, but
"unfortunatley, these expectations never realize." He expressed an
opinion that neither the Armenian president not the Azerbaijani one
are interested in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, since
"it prolongs their term of office."

In the view of leader of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Galust
Sahakian, the only expectation from the current meeting of the two
foreign ministers is that "dicussion volumes between the presidents
of the two countries will somewhat become active." In connection with
P. Semneby’s statement, the deputy noted that the delay is not only
related to the two states but also conditioned by the fact that no
deep discussions take place in the international community. "I do not
see that a solution to the Nagorno Karabakh problem will be found in
2006. Moreover, I see solutions in 2012," G. Sahakian said.