GOAL OF STATEMENTS OF AZERBAIJANI SIDE IS TO INFLUENCE ON RESULTS OF ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA, POLITICIAN LEVON MELIK-SHAHNAZARIAN FINDS
Noyan Tapan
May 08 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The goal of the statements recently made
by the President and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan was to influence
on results of the parliamentary elections to be held in Armenia on May
12. Politician Levon Melik-Shahnazarian expressed this opinion at the
May 8 press conference. He reminded that according to those statements,
particularly, there is an agreement with the Armenian side to return
7 regions of the NKR to Azrebaijan. In L. Melik-Shahnazarian’s words,
those statements, fortunately, did not find any response in Armenia
"as the Armenian people is not enough politisized in foreign issues."
"If we believe in what they said it means that our present authorities
betrayed the Armenian people’s interests, so representatives of
those authorities has no right of occupying state posts any longer,"
L. Melik-Shahnazarian said. And, according to the Azerbaijani
scenario, as the politician mentioned, those political forces which
are advantageous for Azerbaijan will come to power in Armenia, as a
result of the parliamentary elections.
Touching upon the negotiations proceeding on the peaceful settlement of
the Karabakh problem, L. Melik-Shahnazarian mentioned: "This process is
at present as far from the solution as it was in 1994." In his words,
the circumstance of continuously being changed of the contents of the
part relating to Nagorno Karabakh of the report of the U.S. Department
of State proves that the U.S. lost the moral and legal right to
participate in the negotiations.