ACCORDING TO ALEXANDER ISKANDARIAN, THERE ARE NO TOO IMPORTANT AGREEMENTS IN NOVEMBER 2 DECLARATION

Noyan Tapan

Nov 5, 2008

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. There is no negative point,
nor there is too important agreement in the Declaration signed by
the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia on November 2
in Moscow. Political scientist Alexander Iskandarian, the Director
of the Caucasian Media Institute, expressed such an opinion at the
November 5 press conference. According to him, Georgia ceased to exist
as a partner for Russia after the Russian-Georgian armed conflict,
and Russia has decided to "attend to" Armenia and Azerbaijan. And
when dealing with these two countries, according to A. Iskandarian,
Russia cannot leave out the Nagorno Karabakh problem.

The political scientist added that after the armed conflict with
Georgia Russia lost its rating in the eyes of the international
community. And now, according to his observation, keeping the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the sphere of peaceful settlement,
the Russians try to prove to the world that they are for peaceful
settlement of problems and use force (as they did in Georgia) only
by way of exception.

A. Iskandarian said that a wave of panic rises in Armenian press after
each little event or statement of a secondary figure or rumors are
spread that allegedly they "sell" Karabakh. And, as the political
scientist concluded, it comes that the events are not so important
as the fuss kicked up around them.