WITHOUT KARABAKH ARMENIA’S PARTICIPATION IN NEGOTIATIONS BECOMES INADMISSIBLE, ARKADY GHOUKASSIAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Jun 07 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. "We all understand that compromises need
to be made, but today it is absurd to speak about compromises, as we do
not see that Azerbaijan is ready to make compromises today. And we will
not make any one-sided compromises," NKR President Arkady Ghoukassian
stated during his June 7 interview to journalists in Yerevan.
In his words, Azerbaijan uses negotiations format with Armenia
from point of view of propaganda and makes an attempt to prove to
the world that it has a conflict with Armenia and the latter is an
aggressor. "This prompts me one thing: Azerbaijan is not engaged in the
essence of conflict settlement and this means that without Karabakh
Armenia’s participation in the negotiations becomes inadmissible. I
mean that only NKR people can solve issues conneced with Nagorno
Karabakh and no one has the right to make this or that decision
instead of us," Arkady Ghoukassian stated.
In his words, Armenia makes an attempt to negotiate with
Azerbaijan taking into consideration the opinion of NKR people and
authorities. "But in any case, it’s up to the NKR people to make the
final decision."
As regards position of OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in the issue of
negotiations format, he NKR President said: "The mediators have said
for several times that Armenia and Azerbaijan decide the issue of
Karabakh’s not taking part in the negotiations process. They say very
clearly that it is impossible to solve this problem without Nagorno
Karabakh’s participation.
Sometimes the Co-chairs ask Armenia to be more constructive."