INVOLVEMENT OF NKR IN NEGOTIATIONS WILL GIVE A NEW MEANING AND CONTENT TO THIS PROCESS, RA NA VICE-SPEAKER VAHAN HOVHANNISIAN DECLARES

Noyan Tapan
Feb 28 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. NKR should take part in the
negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh settlement, otherwise these
negotiations are senseless.

Vahan Hovhannisian, ARFD Bureau member, RA National Assembly
Vice-Speaker, declared at the February 28 discussion on the subject
"Armenian Reflection of Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s Propaganda" organized
by ARFD Armenian Supreme Body. "We should make our position stricter
demanding to involve NKR in the negotiations process," he stated. In
V. Hovhannisian’s words, this will give a new meaning and content to
the negotiations process.

As he estimated, Azerbaijani-Turkish propaganda has three targets –
the international instances, Azerbaijani and Armenian peoples. At that,
in V. Hovhannisian’s words, at international instances Azerbaijan
is presented as a "poor and starving country," while among Armenian
and Azerbaijani peoples it is presented as strong and mighty. "We
should be able to show this contradiction in a compared way to the
international community," the ARFD Bureau member said.

Touching upon the issue of construction of Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku
railway, V. Hovhannisian said that Armenia should raise the question
of making it controllable at international instances to exclude arms
transportation by this railway.