ALEXANDER MANASYAN: ARMENIA DIPLOMACY HAS NOT SUSTAINED A DEFEAT
Alisa Gevorgyan

"Radiolur"
06.05.2009 17:39

The analysis and comments on the "road map" still belong to the genre
of predictions. Political scientist Alexander Mansayan told a press
conference today that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs constantly urges
to follow and trust only the official sources, while the official
source itself stubbornly keeps silent.

The political scientist today commented on the current stage of the
process targeted at the improvement of the Armenian-Turkish relations,
noting that he doesn’t share the view that in the current stage the
Armenian diplomacy is losing. "At last, this resembles a chess game,
where the knight can always be returned to its initial position,"
the political scientist said.

According to Alexander Manasyan, Armenia, Turkey and the international
community are the three participants of the game.

The political scientist considers that Turkey’s future behavior depends
on whether there will be serious forces in the country to dare to
carry responsibility for the historic mistakes. In this regard,
the predictions are more than uncertain. As for the international
community, Alexander Manasyan specially emphasizes the expectations
of the European family.

"Europe is seriously concerned that it could accept someone, whose
fangs are still bloody," he said.

According t o the political scientist, one of the important
achievements is that the Armenian-Turkish relations have been finally
distinguished from he Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. "Our neighbors
understood that they should speak separately to Yerevan," he said.