ARMENIA HAS TO MAKE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE TURKEY FROM NUMBER OF OSCE MG MEMBER-COUNTRIES: RA PARLIAMENT VICE-SPEAKER

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2007-11-06 17:00:00

ArmInfo. Armenia has to make diplomatic efforts to eliminate Turley
from the number of OSCE MG member-countries, vice-speaker of RA
parliament, member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun party’s Supreme Body Vahan
Hovhannissian told journalists today.

He said that initiators of creation of OSCE MG supposed that the
Minsk Group will include the countries, which are neutral to the
Nagorno Karabakh problem. However, Turkey took an emphatically
pro-Azerbaijani position from the very beginning, and there is no
point of neutrality. Therefore, Turkey should be eliminated from
the number of OSCE MG members. In addition, if Azerbaijan refuses of
negotiations with Stepanakert, Armenia should negotiate with Ankara
and not Baku, as it is just Ankara which encourages the militaristic
moods of Azerbaijan, V. Hovhannissian said. He also ondered: "What does
Azerbaijan sacrifices when talking of compromises?" the vice- speaker
thinks that a paradoxical situation has developed, namely, Armenia is
required to return the territories, while Azerbaijan sacrifices peace
only. It turns out that Azerbaijan sacrifices peace against peace.

This is an absurd, V. Hovhannnissian said.

Touching on the situation in the Armenian-populated Georgia’s region
of Samtskhe- Javakhetia, V. Hovhannissian said that Georgia should
understand that any vacuum in the South Caucasus region, as the history
teaches, is filed with Turks and Azerbaijanis. "It turns out that we
are not neighbours with the Georgians, as Azerbaijanis live between
us the Georgians almost everywhere. Javakhk is an exception, so both
us and the Georgians have to cherish it like the apple of ones eye",
V. Hovhannissian emphasized.