AND ARMENIA?

Haykakan Zhamanak
Jan 8 2009
Armenia

While meeting with journalists before the New Year, Movses Hakobyan,
the defence minister of the [unrecognized] Nagornyy Karabakh republic,
made an almost sensational statement, which, perhaps, will become a
matter of discussion in Armenia.

While answering a question of our correspondent on the Karabakh
settlement, Hakobyan said literally the following: "As opposed to other
countries in the region, Karabakh is the only one where the authorities
have been elected by the people and where the people accept it".

Perhaps after this statement the Armenian government will finally start
to treat seriously the issue of what Movsisyan implies by saying the
"region", and whether he believes that the government in Armenia,
as opposed to Karabakh, has not been elected by the people. It is
quite possible that if the Armenian government is convinced that what
the Karabakh defence minister said refers to them as well, then there
could be trouble in the pipeline for Movses Hakobyan.