AMERICANS WISH TO INVOLVE KARABAKH IN THE TALKS

Lragir.am
12-06-2007 16:19:02

I have been trying to persuade this person to deal with foreign
policies but he tried his best to avoid foreign policies, stated Igor
Muradyan, political scientist, about NKR President Arkady Ghukasyan in
a news conference on June 12 at the National Press Club. "Meanwhile,
when he is about to leave, not be reelected but leave, he says Karabakh
must take part in the talks," Igor Muradyan says.

He says Arkady Ghukasyan’s move is just a ruse. "The mediators decided
that it should happen. The Americans wish that. Perhaps history
will reveal who persuaded them. Mr. Ghukasyan got some crumbs of
information, not functional information but crumbs of events, and he
felt he can say such things now. The person drifts along the stream,"
Igor Muradyan.

Igor Muradyan says Arkady Ghukasyan has conserved the foreign policy
of Karabakh for many years. "A process of granting sovereignty to
uncontrollable territories, new territories, unrecognized states is
underway, it is not just a tendency but a real process. The package
of these territories, such as Kosovo, the others, is only the
beginning. Why is this process realistic? Because the world actors
want it. Russia says it is against granting independence to Kosovo,
but it does not mean anything.

Russia is also interested in this process. And the United States is
interested," Igor Muradyan says. He says the OSCE Minsk Group has
stopped being a mediator to the Karabakh issue but has turned into
a convenient arena for the dialogue of super powers, because there
is not a more convenient one where the issues of regional and global
policies could be discussed. Otherwise, the Minks Group would have
been disbanded a long time ago, the political scientist says.

"The process is underway. And what does it require? It requires a
political subject. It appears to be simple. A few years ago Karabakh
was a leader. Not because it behaved well, or conducted an active
policy. Karabakh was a leader because the other unrecognized states
were nothing. They were just uncontrollable territories, now they
have become unrecognized states.

We are facing the danger to become an uncontrollable territory from an
unrecognized state. Excellent dialectics! And this process is due to
this person," Igor Muradyan says. He means Arkady Ghukasyan. Muradyan
says he does not have personal problems with him, Ghukasyan has even
awarded him, and they had dialogue at one time but now his behavior
makes Igor Muradyan show his antipathy and negative attitude towards
this figure.