FORMER ARMENIAN SENIOR OFFICIAL WANTS KOCHARIAN TRIED FOR MADRID PRINCIPLES OF KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

Interfax
July 20 2009
Russia

Former Armenian deputy defense minister Vagan Shirkhanian believes
that former Armenian President Robert Kocharian and former Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanian must face trial in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"Kocharian and Oskanian must face trial in Karabakh for the current
Madrid principles of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,"
Shirkhanian, currently a member of the opposition Social Democratic
Party, said at a Monday press conference.

"The Kocharian regime drew Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh to the
threshold of disaster. I will tell any demagogue that the Madrid
principles are a bad thing. These are anti-Armenian and anti-Karabakh
principles. Kocharian and Oskanian must be held responsible for that,"
he said.

In his opinion, today Nagorno-Karabakh should hold talks on conflict
settlement with Azerbaijan itself.