ALEXANDER ISKANDARYAN: KARABAKH CONFLICT CURRENT STAGE CAN BE DESCRIBED AS "PEACE"
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.05.2008 17:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It’s not the Bishkek protocol but the fact that the
sides has maintained armistice for 14 years is important, Director of
the Caucasus Media Institute, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan
told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
The current stage of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be described as
"peace", according to him.
"I do not agree when people call it "neither war nor peace." If
soldiers do not fire, it means that a peaceful process is underway. The
Bishkek protocol was a document that fixed the situation at the
line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in 1994,"
Iskandaryan said.
On May 12, 1994 Defense Minister Pavel Grachev of Russia and Serzh
Sargsyan of Armenia as well as commander of the NKR Defense Army
Samvel Babayan signed an agreement on armistice in the Karabakh
conflict zone. Afterwards, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Mamedrafi
Mammadov put his signature to the document which secured lasting
ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
