FIFTEEN YEARS SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE WAS SIGNED
Marianna Gyurjyan

"Radiolur"
12.05.2009 16:48

Fifteen years have passed after the large-scale hostilities ceased
in Nagorno-Karabakh. The heavy defeats in 1993-1994 made Azerbaijan
accept Russia’s initiative of cease-fire on May 5, 1994 in Bishkek,
the capital of Kazakhstan, which was followed by the signing of the
cease-fire agreement in Moscow on May 12. The cease-fire has been
maintained until now, and it is actually the only document regulating
the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations.

Speaking about the Bishkek and Moscow agreements, Representative
of the Armenian National Congress David Shahnazaryan and ex-Foreign
Minister Vahan Papazyan told a news conference today that those are
important because they were signed by the representative of Nagorno
Karabakh, i.e. Nagorno Karabakh was de facto recognized as a party
to the conflict.

Karabakh should change its stance of an offended child if it wants to
participate in the talks, Vahan Papazyan said. David Shahnazaryan
agreed with the opinion, adding: "If Nagorno Karabakh wants to
participate and become a party to the talks, it should declare that
the Armenian authorities do not represent them. There is no document
higher than the decision on the trilateral format of the negotiations
taken at the Budapest Summit. The authorities of Nagorno Karabakh
should demand the restoration of the format if they wish so.0