ARMEN RUSTAMIAN: "POLITICAL FORCES OF ARMENIA STILL HAVE DEEDS IN MAKING COUNTRY COMPLETELY FREE, INDEPENDENT AND UNITED"
Noyan Tapan
Feb 22 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Starting from 1988 the Artsakh
movement was of really national character and had a tendency of
making Armenia free, independent and united. Armen Rustamian, a
representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Supreme Body
of Armenia, the Chairman of the RA National Assembly Standing Commitee
on Foreign Relations expressed such a viewpoint at the February 22
press conference. But, in his words, the country is not completely
free and independent today as the institute of fear and transparent
elections has not been formed, and is not united as "the victory we
had in Artsakh has not been adopted by the international community
yet." In A.Rustamian’s opinion, which political forces come to the
parliament as a result of May 12 elections, all of them will face
the mentioned problems. And problem number one, in his words, is
formation of the tradition of holding elections corresponding to high
international standards. The representative of the ARF Supreme Body
of Armenia expressed satisfaction on the occasion of the statement
made by Peter Semneby, the European Union Special Representative
for South Caucasus that the time for settlement of relations between
Azerbaijan and Armenia came and the EU, in this case, must take the
mediator’s role. In A.Rustamian’s opinion, this statement must be
considered as a response to Armenian calls on involving the NKR in
the negotiations process. "Azeris would not like it but they will not
be able to present any logical reasoning and deflect the negotiations
process," A.Rustamian mentioned. He added that Azerbaijan states in the
context of defining its relations with Karabakh that the conflict is
its and the NKR’s inner problem in the solution of which Armenia may
not participate. A.Rustamian qualified this Azerbaijani viewpoint as
"absurd."
In his opinion, the Azerbaijani side exhausted those "ways" by which
it attempts to deflect from the main point of the problem."