TIGRAN TOROSIAN: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT’S PROPOSAL ON USE OF GABALA RADAR
STATION IS A BIT STRANGE

YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Russian president Vladimir Putin’s
proposal on joint use of Azerbaijan’s Gabala radar station by Russians
and Americans is "a bit strange". The speaker of the RA National
Assembly Tigran Torosian expressed this opinion at the June 22 press
conference.

However, in his words, a short time after this statement "we can state
that there are not many people today who believe that this cooperation
will finally become reality", and it will remain as an interesting
political step.

Speaking about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, the NA speaker
expressed confidence that Azerbaijan has no desire to solve this
problem. According to T. Torosian, the Azerbaijani side’s statements to
solve the problem in a military way and return the territories under
control of Armenian troops are pseudo-patriotic. In his opinion, the
fact that the Karabakh subject is more frequently addressed in
Azerbaijan is conditioned by the upcoming elections in this country. He
noted that if the Azerbaijani authorities really intend to solve the
Nagorno Karabakh prolem, they should have reduced the hatred for the
Armenian people and anti-Armenian propaganda and prepared their own
people for the problem’s solution. "But they know very well that
Karabakh will never be part of Azerbaijan," Tigran Torosian said.