ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER OF RUSSIA CALLS ON YEREVAN TO REFUSE FROM TALKS AND RECOGNIZE NKR’S INDEPENDENCE IN CASE OF PRESSURES

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.05.2007 18:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The next negotiation between Armenian President
Robert Kocharian and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliev is scheduled for
June 10 in Saints Petersburg. These talks may become decisive in the
process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. At the same time
negotiations are carried out on the background of an unprecedented
cynical statement, which belongs to OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Yuri
Merzlyakov. He made it during his visit to Baku, saying that Armenia
must "remove his forces from 7 regions" and "Nagorno Karabakh is
an integral part of Azerbaijan". Similar statements made by one of
the Co-Chairs of the negotiation process, actually have character
of predetermining outcome of talks and contradict to the mandate of
Co-Chairs," "Yerkramas" Armenian newspaper of Russia reports. The
publication indicates, "we are sure that first of all people of NKR
must decide the future of Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s status and fate
of territories adjacent to the former NKAR. Meanwhile, the fate of
NKR and historical territories of Armenia, which were liberated at
the cost of human lives, have the most direct connection with all
Armenians around the world.

Armenians of Russia will not be quite spectators of how the mediators
in the negotiation process imitating their successful activity
constantly are making compromises to Azerbaijan, creating threats for
the peace and stability that exists in the region. Saints Petersburg
must not become the place, where for the next time the international
community will try to deprive Armenians of their historical lands.

Repetition of the Moscow Treaty of 1921, in the result of which the
Kars region and Surmalu uyezd passed to Turkey from Armenia and the
Nakhichevan region and greater part of Sharur-Daralagyaz uyezd to
Azerbaijan, must not happen.

"Yerkramas" Armenian newspaper of Russia on behalf of its readers
calls on the "leadership of Armenia to refuse from signing any
document, which would infringe the interests of the Armenian nation,
and in case of political pressure from third parties to refuse from
continuing talks and officially recognize independence of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic."