RAMKAVAR PARTY RECORDS AND PROPOSES

Lragir.am
15:19:48 – 28/10/2008

The leader of the Ramkavar Party of Armenia Harutiun Arakelyan stated
October 28 at the Hayatsk press club that Armenia must resign from the
framework of the OSCE Minsk Group framework and apply to the Court
of the Hague, where Arakelyan and the Liberal Democratic Ramkavar
Party of Armenia think by bringing together the potential of the
Armenians worldwide it will be possible to prove that Azerbaijan
attacked Karabakh whose resource was weaker several times, used mass
destruction weapon shelling the towns and villages of Karabakh and
also of Armenia, therefore Azerbaijan is an aggressor, not Armenia.

The impression from the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group pushed
Harutiun Arakelyan to make that statement. The leader of the
Ramkavar Party said the mediators pursue only their interests
and please Azerbaijan by non-pro-Armenian and actually insulting
statements. Harutiun Arakelyan also thinks that the Armenian press
reports about the agreement of the government to return the territories
are circulated from the outside and aim to measure the public moods
and crash morale. Harutiun Arakelyan says he cannot imagine that a
country would send troops to defend Armenia in case Azerbaijan attacks.

In this connection the reporters asked Harutiun Arakelyan why he
considers the media reports as an attempt to crash morale but not
the government’s statements on readiness to return territories. It
turns out that Arakelyan does not know what those statements of the
government mean. Besides, he thinks that the government is temporizing
through those statements until Armenia becomes strong economically.

In answer to the question of reporters what Armenia can do if the
Minsk Group and Azerbaijan refuse to go to the Hague, Harutiun
Arakelyan says Armenia must have it as a reserve option. According
to him, the point is that Azerbaijan has been threatening to report
the issue to other organizations for years on, whereas we are afraid
of doing that. According to him, if Azerbaijan reports the issue
to the UN with the help of the oil dollars and the Islamic world,
Armenia should set forward the option of the Court of the Hague.