Interfax Russia
May 6 2007

Prospering Armenia party favors "package settlement" for Karabakh
conflict

Yerevan. May 6 (Interfax) – The Prospering Armenia party favors a
package settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, parliamentary
deputy Avet Adonts of the Prospering Armenia party, who is also
Armenia’s special envoy and minister, told Interfax.

"Prospering Armenia strongly advocates a package settlement of the
Karabakh conflict, primarily because trust between Armenia and
Azerbaijan has been at a zero level for the past few years," Adonts
said.

In the absence of trust one cannot discuss any step-by-step
settlement, which is based essentially on mutual trust, he said.

"It is our conviction that absolutely all of the sides’ prospective
moves must be strictly documented, a timeframe for their
implementation must be drawn up, after which settlement as such could
begin," Adonts said.

Prospering Armenia wants a compromise to be attained on the Karabakh
problem, but there are three issues on which Armenia’s ability to
compromise ends, he said. "We cannot show any flexibility or
compromise, first, while handing the status problem, meaning that
there is no alternative to Karabakh’s independence; second, we cannot
compromise on the issue of exhaustive security guarantees for the
population of Nagorno Karabakh and, finally, on the issue of
maintaining direct contact with Armenia," Adonts said.

Experts predict that Prospering Armenia could win 22%-27% of the vote
in the Armenian parliamentary elections set for May 12. sd

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress