ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: RESIGNATION OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN IS THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE KARABAKH

ArmInfo
2009-07-14 13:51:00

ArmInfo. The only was to prevent bringing to life the dangerous and
fatal scenario on the Karabakh settlement is immediate resignation
of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan as well as holding
of extraordinary presidential and then parliamentary elections,
formation of the authorities which the people trust in and which will
an opportunity to fully protect national interests of the people of
Armenia against the world community’, – statement of Armenian National
Congress [ANC] regarding the latest events around the Karabakh conflict
settlement says.

The statement also says that the joint statement of the presidents
of Russia, the USA and France made on 10 July has become an important
landmark.

Moreover, they think in the ANC that the statement of the three
presidents does not disclose the renovated document which should be
put in the basis of settlement. For this reason ANC will give final
assessment later when the details of the document will be clear.

At the same time, ANC says the information in the mentioned statement,
accompanied by other official statements which were not disproved by
the Armenian authorities, gives a ground for serious thoughts. In
particular, it becomes clear that the Karabakh status is no more
discussed, and the package decision, overworked by the authorities
for over 10 years, becomes a fiction, i.e. actually, provision on the
referendum was removed from the agenda: it was replaced by indefinite
formulations.

‘It has already been a year and half the Congress is claiming about
these dangerous events. All the time, the official propaganda and
pseudo-opposition diverted the people’s attention from our signals
and tried to calm the society down saying there are no serious changes
in the Karabakh settlement process, and the status-quo will be still
preserved for a long period of time. Naturally, the world community
could not but seize such an occasion: a circumstance of illegitimacy of
the Armenian authorities and, in particular, Serzh Sargsyan, limitation
of democratic freedoms in the country, availability of political
prisoners and corruption. Based on this, the Armenian authorities had
to make serious concessions both in the Armenian-Turkish process and
in the Karabakh conflict settlement process.

Being in no confidence of the people and having no legitimacy,
S. Sargsyan made concessions to preserve their power>, ANC statement
says.