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-WE HAVE LOST ON DIPLOMATIC LEVEL-
[06:15 pm] 29 May, 2008

Today Republican Gagik Minassian and Member of the
-Heritage- Party Larissa Alaverdian were hosted at the
Hayeli Club to discuss the issue of Karabakh conflict
settlement.

-No RA Parliament can endanger the Nagorno-Karabakh
achievements of the past 20 years-, declared Gagik
Minassian in reply to an -A1+- question if Serzh
Sargssian had discussed the possible solutions to the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable for the
Republican Party.

Minassian also noted that confidentiality of
negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation
does not allow the problem to be discussed in a party
format, so the party did not confer over the issue.

But the document of the NKR conflict regulation that
the co-chairs currently possess, is totally satisfying
for Gagik Minassian. -It is quite pleasing that the
NKR right to self-determination is defined in the
document as reality-, Gagik Minassian says. However,
Member of the -Heritage- Party Larissa Alaverdian
contradicts him. To her point of view in foreign
documents the NKR right to self-determination is
recognized only in the territory of Azerbaijan.
Neither does Ms. Alaverdian welcome the idea of
holding a referendum in 15 years’ time since NKR was
able to gain independence by most strict Soviet laws.

-Armenia has been losing on diplomatic and
informational levels since 1995-, declares Larisa
Alaverdian. But Gagik Minassian cannot agree with her
statement. According to Ms. Alaverdian NKR conflict
settlement is in the hands of some authority or group
that decides when and why a certain step should be
taken. Such was Raffi Hovhannissian’s project that was
not even taken into the agenda for the authorities
considered it wasn’t proper for the time being.

However, both the speakers had the same opinion on the
current state of NKR: NKR has seriously developed and
today it has a generation that has never lived under
foreign rule. And even the international public has to
reckon with it.

Gagik Minassian does not expect much from the upcoming
meeting of the two Presidents as Azerbaijan is going
to hold Presidential elections soon and the period is
not far suitable for negotiations. -They will
undertake a cognitive attitude-, says Minassian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress