IN CASE ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER UNBLOCKED KARABAKH ISSUE CAN BE SETTLED WITHIN MONTH
DeFacto Agency
July 18 2008
Armenia
In case Armenian Turkish border is unblocked Karabakh issue can be
settled within a month. Only in this case Azerbaijan will lose the
sole and, I would say, seeming advantage it has over Armenia, Kiro
Manoyan, Director of the ARF Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political Affairs
Office, stated in an interview with ArmInfo.
He noted he did not believe that Turkey could change its stand
in Karabakh conflict, however, at that any positive change in
Armenian-Turkish relations will spontaneously influence on the
Karabakh conflict settlement process. "In this case Azerbaijan will
realize that the game has been lost. Personally I quite understand
anxiety that has already appeared in Azerbaijan in this connection",
Kiro Manoyan underscored.
At the same time he noted that the possibility of unblocking the
border was not high, as it would be too big step made by Turkey
towards Armenia. In his words, Turkey will make any positive step
towards Armenia, which can serve the country’s propaganda goals. So
all steps made by Turkey in this direction will unfortunately bear
imitation nature.
"At that Armenia has no possibility to make any concession to Turkey,
since there are not any. The only concession Armenia can make for
Turkey could become Armenian authorities’ renunciation of policy of
Armenian Genocide’s recognition in the whole world, an I categorically
rule out such a possibility", Kiro Manoyan concluded.