MADRID PRINCIPLES CONFIRM UNRESERVED DEFEAT OF ARMENIAN DIPLOMACY, IDHR STATES

NOYAN TAPAN
JULY 15, 2009
YEREVAN

The Institute for Democracy and Human Rights thinks that Madrid
principles on the Artsakh problem settlement confirm the unreserved
defeat of the Armenian diplomacy. Considering inadmissible the call of
the U.S., Russian and French Presidents in the July 10 joint statement
on quickly reaching a final agreement in connection with them, IDHR
considers more revolting the Armenian authorities’ defeatist and
unreasonable position on this occasion.

According to the IDHR, RA Foreign Minister E. Nalbandian’s July 11
statement confirms that the RA authorities are shamelessly ready to
yield Armenian state interests, the RA and NKR peoples’ rights for
safe life and development.

"We think in a similar circumstance that, to overcome the situation
with dignity, the RA authorities must state at least at the RA
President’s level that our state and people do not accept the
stated principles. It must be also unequivocally demanded that the
Republic of Nagorno Karabakh is recognized a full and equal member
of the negotiations. It is inadmissable to sit at the negotiations
table on the occasion of the Artsakh problem, without satisfying
these conditions. The Armenian party has all the preconditions for
the victory from both legal and historic-cultural and military
viewpoints. And the compromises and defeats in the political
negotiations are provided only by diplomates’ and elite’s political
flabbinees and weakness," is stated in the IDHR July 14 statement.

If the present authorities of Armenia can not realize and carry out
the interests and fundamental rights of the state and the people,
then, according to the IDHR, they must quickly leave their positions
or must be removed from them. Moreover, it must be carried out at the
level of the RA President or government, but not the Foreign Minister.

The IDHR expresses its assistance to all those forces who expressed
resoluteness for keeping all the territories confirmed by the
Constitution of the Republic of Artsakh, recognition of the state
status of Artsakh or uniting with Armenia and are ready in this
direction. The IDHR also calls the authorities of the Republic of
Artsakh to express a principal position and reject Madrid principles
and exert pressure on the RA authorities on that occasion.