DUE TO WRONG POLICY OF RA AUTHORITIES NKR TURNED FROM CONFLICT OBJECT – DISPUTABLE TERRITORY, ALTERNATIVE MEMBERS SAY

Noyan Tapan
Mar 14 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. "Dozens of pro-Azerbaijani and no
pro-Armenian documents adopted over the past years by international
instances are the evidence of the fact that RA President Robert
Kocharian and his co-thinkers have sold Karabakh for retaining
their own power." Nikol Pashinian, founder-member of Alternative
public-political initiative, editor of Haykakan Zhamanak daily,
stated this at the March 14 press conference. In his words, the fact
that the U.S. State Department in its annual report characterised
Nagorno Karabakh as Azerbaijani area occupied by Armenia means
that there is a danger of moving the Nagorno Karabakh problem to
UN agenda. Reminding that RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian named
the above mentioned formulation as a "misprint," N. Pashinian named
"misprints" the authorities, due to the incompetent policy of which
the essence of Nagorno Karabakh problem was misrepresented in almost
all reports of international community. So, in his words, we should
get rid of the the current regime of "skinheads" as soon as possible.

"Those saying that we must not speak about the Nagorno Karabakh
problem in the preelectoral period understand nothing in politics," the
Haykakan Zhamanak’s editor said. As he affirmed, on the threshold of
the elections all parties should present their own views on settlement
of Nagorno Karabakh conflict for the people to choose the variant
most acceptable for it.

Another member of Alternative, former Yerevan Mayor Vahagn Khachatrian
said that it is the wrong policy of the current authorities that
resulted in a situation when NKR turned from the conflict subject
into the conflict object, disputable territory.