ALEXANDER MANASYAN: THE KARABAKH ISSUE HAS BEEN POLITICIZED

ArmRadio.am
18.04.2007 17:07

The Nagorno Karabakh issue has been politicized, and the legal package
of the issue has been drawn out of the negotiation package, president
of the Political Research Academy Alexander Manasyan said during the
discussion on "The Karabakh issues after the elections." According
to him, the categories which present the conflict to the world are
not adequate. "During the official talks the question of the main
victim of the conflict – the Azerbaijani Armenians – should also be
presented," he underlined. The political scientist is confident that
in 1992, when Azerbaijan was joining the UN, Armenia had to declare
that in compliance with the agreements in force at that moment it
did not have the right to be declared an independent state within
the borders of Soviet Azerbaijan.

Member of the All-Armenian National Movement Hovhannes Igityan
considers that for significantly changing the process of the Karabakh
conflict settlement it is necessary for Karabakh to become a party
in the negotiations. We should "break" the opinion that this is a
conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In reality there is the Nagorno Karabakh Republic with its people which
has self-determined and continues this process," he noted. Among the
prerequisites of settlement Hovhannes Igityan points out the conduct
of free and fair elections. "Armenia must become a true democratic
country. Democratic Armenia has more chances than oil Azerbaijan,"
he said.

Hovhannes Igityan agrees with the RA President’s opinion that the
Karabakh issue should not be disputed in the electoral processes,
although, according to him, all political forces touch upon it.