AFTER ALL IT’S ALL THE SAME FOR ARMENIA WHO PROVIDES ASSISTANCE, KEY POINT IS SOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.05.2007 13:36 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Geopolitical preferences within the Armenian elite
lie in efforts to solve the "Karabakh problem" in favorable conditions
for Armenia and all Armenians in the world, candidate of science,
head of the department of international relations at the Institute
of Political and Military Studies Sergey Markedonov stated in the
interview to PanARMENIAN.Net.

The Russian analyst quoted RA ex-Prime Minister Vazgen
Manoukyan. "Thinking over the "putsch of shaky hands" in August of
1991, Manoukyan stated that it’s all the same for Armenia who will
come to power in Moscow. The key point is to resolve the "Karabakh
problem" in favorable conditions for Armenia and all Armenians in
the world. Perhaps beginning from 1991 nobody has ever expressed the
gist of geopolitical preferences of Armenia and its elite better than
Vazgen Manoukyan has. After all it’s all the same for Yerevan who
provides assistance, the key point here is the solution of Karabakh
conflict," Markedonov thinks. He said, here the very fact of assistance
is important.

"If the State Department does it, the Armenia elite becomes
pro-American, if the Russian State Duma does it, pro-Russian sympathies
of the Armenian elite are guaranteed. In 1992 the U.S. Congress
adopted the famous 907 Amendment, which for a rather long period
of time blocked American state assistance to Azerbaijan. In 1995
in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Russian parliamentarians adopted a tough resolution, which condemned
the policy of the Ottoman Empire towards Armenians. In both cases
Armenia expressed its support, first to American congressmen and then
to Russian parliamentarians. The main thing here is that how Armenia’s
interests will be taken into account while working out the policy of
superpowers," Markedonov underscored.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress