ARAM SARGSIAN: WE NEED INITIATIVE AND OFFENSIVE DIPLOMACY

DeFacto Agency
March 24 2008
Armenia

YEREVAN, 24.03.08. DE FACTO. "Azerbaijan should be reminded that at
the least 107 countries did not support its position, and only 39
states voted for the light consolation of Azerbaijanis’ disturbed
pride. However, one should think why the Armenian MFA was unable to
use all its levers to make more countries vote against the resolution,
why the possibilities of Diaspora and separate people were not used",
the RA Democratic Party leader Aram Sargsian told in an interview with
Novosti-Armenia Agency, commenting on the resolution on the Karabakh
issue, which was presented by the Azerbaijani party and adopted by
the U. N.

According to the politician, "we are in need of initiative and
offensive diplomacy". In his words, it is necessary to more
actively cooperate with Organization of the Islamic Conference,
explain Armenia’s position, in part, to state there are no elements
of religious intolerance or interreligious strife in the Karabakh
issue: "The Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians did not want to live
within Azerbaijan not due to the fact that they are Christians and
Azerbaijanis are Muslims, but because they wished to reunite with
their Motherland and live independently of Azerbaijan, irrespective
of the fact if the country was Christian or Muslim".