NO SECRET ABOUT TALKS
Lragir.am
04-06-2007
There are no secrets about the talks for settlement of the Karabakh
conflict, thinks Armen Aghayan, member of the Initiative for Defense
of Liberated Territories, who participated in the discussion held by
the Alliance Youth Initiative. According to Armen Aghayan, the
statements about the return of territories are a game today, tomorrow
we may face up to a challenge. Armen Aghayan says the mediators make
substantial efforts to work towards statements which allow Armenia
and Azerbaijan to interpret them to their publics as a favorable
proposal. "And through this illusion the signing of a document is
facilitated, or agreement on a stage of it," Armen Aghayan says.
The process is dangerous for Armenia and needs to be prevented, he
says.
According to Armen Aghayan, if these territories are returned to
Azerbaijan, two developments are possible. First, it may spark a war:
either Azerbaijan will try to take Karabakh through use of force, or
there will be people in Armenia who will oppose to the return of
territories through use of force.
If the use of force is a matter of future, many are now opposing with
statements. For instance, Larissa Alaverdyan, former ombudsman of
Armenia, who participated in the discussion. According to her, our
diplomacy does not use the possibilities for discussing the issue in
the legal sphere and prove that Karabakh is Armenian. The director of
the Museum of the Genocide Haik Demoyan says in the world politics
historiography is not a language that works. According to Haik
Demoyan, we need not create an information background for ourselves
that the territories are about to be returned. "Let us not create
alarmist moods. We often succeed. We create an information
background, a state of panic, and try to overcome this state. This
does not mean let’s be confident, let’s feel free. No.
Let’s not instill defeatism in our society unintentionally
through our vigorous steps," Haik Demoyan says.
Academician Lenser Aghalovyan says the problem is in ourselves, not
in the outer world. He says Armenia does not react adequately to
Azerbaijan’s diplomatic moves initiated under Aliyev Senior, who
succeeding transforming the problem into a territorial dispute
between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Regarding the policy on territories,
Lenser Aghalovyan says the Armenian government’s policy shows it
is ready to return the territories. Otherwise, there is no
explanation why the territories were plundered, were not settled, and
become separate people’s ranches, who draw immense profits.
"On the very next day of occupying Shahumyan Azerbaijan settled
it. 13 years have passed. What have we done? Has our country decided
yet to keep or to return these territories? Its actions show that it
has decided. And the decision is to return these territories. In
fact, no point has been improved compared with the document
circulated since Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s office," Lenser
Aghalovyan says.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
