A. Ashotyan: "Azerbaijan Has Great Anticipations From Levon Ter Petr

A. AHSOTYAN: "AZERBAIJAN HAS GREAT ANTICIPATIONS FROM LEVON TER-PETROSYAN’S POSSIBLE COME BACK"

Panorama.am
17:34 14/12/2007

Today members of non-official format of "Framework agreement on peace
process" presented the results of the negotiations at the office
of the Armenian Democratic Party (ADP). ADP Chairman Aram Sargsyan
mentioned that the 12th round is one step back from the achievements
since the Azerbaijani party acts from tougher positions and refused
to accept the arrangements reached in the course of past meetings.

"Azerbaijan was inspired by the ministers’ summit in Madrid where
they spoke about the return of 6 territories of Karabakh," Sargsyan
mentioned. He believes it is necessary to freeze the negotiations
within the framework of Minsk Group and later come up with a clearer
and more acceptable disposition.

Armen Ashotyan, deputy of parliament and member of the Republican
block, who has been included in the non-official negotiation process
for the first time, mentioned that he does not agree with the freezing
of the negotiation process because in that case the process may be
shifted to another structure, for example the U.N., which may have
negative consequences.

The leader of Constitutional Right Union (SIM), Haik Babukhanyan,
assured that Azerbaijan acted from militaristic standpoints. "The
possibility of resuming war has become a victory paper for them which
they ground on money flowing from oil, on strengthened geopolitical
position and their seeming success in the Minsk Group," Babukhanyan
said.

All three speakers said Azerbaijan is very enthusiastic about the
change of power in Armenia.

"They have high expectations from possible come back of Levon
Ter-Petrosyan," Ashotyan said.