KIRO MANOYAN IS NOT SATISFIED WITH ARMENIAN POLICY ON "RETURNING TERRITORIES" IN NAGOTNO KARABAKH NEGOTIATIONS

Noyan Tapan
Jun 25 2007

YEREVAN, JUNE 25, NOYAN TAPAN. Kiro Manoyan, responsible person of the
Office of Hay Dat, member of ARF Dashnaktsutiun party, predicted that
no serious changes for the better will be recorded in the negotiations
concerning the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement by the end of
2008 and the beginning of 2009. As he mentioned at the June 25 press
conference, the negotiators will be engaged in "other problems"
during that period and will not exert any pressure upon Armenia and
Azerbaijan, taking into consideration the fact that peace has been
preserved in Nagorno Karabakh without the presence of peacemaking
forces for already thirteen years. In K. Manoyan’s opinion, the other
reason for the delay of the negotiations is the coming presidential
elections in the four countries at once: in Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Russia, and the United States of America.

K. Manoyan believes that during that period when everybody will be busy
with personal problems, there will be only one thing for Armenia to do:
"to speed up the resettlement process of the liberated territories and
promote the agitation diplomacy" in order to introduce the Armenian
position to the world community in a more proper way. Referring to
the conversations about the returning of the liberated territories, he
declared that the ARFD is unequivocally against such a development. In
response to the question of whether he is satisfied with the current
policy of the Armenian negotiations, K. Manoyan said that he is not
satisfied with the part concerning the returning of the liberated
territories. He also added that if the ARFD representative is elected
RA President, he will never take that step.

In response to a journalist’s observation of whether there is an
apprehension that Bako Sahakian, registered as candidate for the post
of the President of Nagorno Karabakh, will not be able to govern the
country because of the fact that he is a drug-addict, K. Manoyan told
the journalist not to worry as "the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Nagorno Karabakh is a member of the ARFD party and will protect the
interests of Karabakh."
From: Baghdasarian