IN HASTE

Haykakan Zhamanak
Nov 15 2008
Armenia

[Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan suddenly went to Karabakh on an
unplanned visit yesterday [14 November]. Official sources are trying to
keep the aim of this visit secret. They do not comment about it at all.

In fact, as informed sources told us yesterday, Sargsyan visited
Karabakh so suddenly to calm down generals there and to give
instructions to Bako Sahakyan [leader of Azerbaijan’s breakaway
Nagornyy Karabakh region].

Karabakh generals view the Meiendorf declaration [signed by the
Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents near Moscow on 2
November] and Bako Sahakyan’s behaviour very negatively. They did
not even welcome Sahakyan during his visit to NKR [Nagornyy Karabakh
republic] military units. Certain changes have been noticed in the
NKR president’s behaviour since that. According to our sources,
Sahakyan has invited several generals to his office and tried to
calm them down and keep them under his influence. However, Sahakyan
was not able to do so. He himself became influenced by the generals,
which made Sargsyan leave for the NKR a day before a visit by the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.