MOSCOW NEGOTIATIONS ARE RA’S DIPLOMATIC WAIL, MARXIST PARTY LEADER DAVID HAKOBIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan

Nov 6, 2008

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The Declaration on Nagorno
Karabakh settlement signed by the Presidents of Russia, Armenia,
and Azerbaijan on November 2 in Moscow is the diplomatic wail of
the third Republic of Armenia. David Hakobian, the Chairman of the
Marxist Party of Armenia, expressed such an opinion at the November
6 press conference. According to him, Armenia, the side winning the
military conflict of national-liberation struggle for 15 years running,
is defeated due to diplomatic incompetence.

"Armenia has chosen the variant of compromises to Azerbaijan, which
launched the war and was defeated, with the mediation of third
states, which in their turn, dictate their political interests,"
D. Hakobian said. In his opinion, those Moscow events showed that
Armenia’s diplomacy needs serious coordination, changing the tactical,
including cadre arsenal starting from the Ambassador of Armenia to
RF up to the RA President.

According to D. Hakobian’s estimation, Russia proved that it uses
dual standards in the Nagorno Karabakh issue. According to him,
"it carries out policy of keeping Azerbaijan in check at the expense
of the Armenians."

According to the leader of the Marxist Party, he means ceding the
seven NKR regions, which is inadmissible. According to him, the
diplomatic crisis of the Artsakh issue can result in a political
crisis, and the opposition can take advantage of that. According to
him, a possibility to consolidate the whole people around itself and
holding new presidential elections is given to the opposition.

For the sake of the national interest and coming out of the
formed situation D. Hakobian proposes NA invalidating the three
Turkish-Bolshevik Treaties of 1921 dividing Armenia into parts,
the Treaty of Kars, Treaty of Nakhichevan, and the decision of the
Caucasian Bureau. According to the speaker, after it Armenia should
come out of the negotiations process on Nagorno Karabakh settlement
and give place to Artsakh, then without the mediatory mission of the
third countries, proclaim the Armenian Republic of Artsakh.