GIRO MANOYAN: NAGORNO KARABAKH SETTLEMENT CURRENT PROCESS IS NOT IN ARMENIA’S INTERESTS

Noyan Tapan
Aug 19, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 19, NOYAN TAPAN. According to Giro Manoyan, the Head of
the ARFD Bureau Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) and Political Affairs Office,
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries try until October 14 to
ensure Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s consent over the revised Madrid
principles. However, as G.

Manoyan mentioned at an August 19 meeting with journalists, the
revised variant of those principles will be given to the sides in
late September.

According to the speaker, none of the sides will give a consent to
those basic principles, but "no one wants to be the first to say "no."

"Rather hot political weather is forecast in the coming weeks as
after all official Yerevan should form a final view towards those
principles," G. Manoyan said. According to his evaluation, this
process of Nagorno Karabakh settlement is not in Armenia’s interests.

G. Manoyan also said that Turkey has failed the process of negotiations
with Armenia by putting forward preconditions. "In the middle of the
game Turkey has changed the rules of the game. For Armenia, these
negotiations are failed, suspended by Turkey," G. Manoyan said. In his
words, Armenia should declare it as soon as possible as for Turkey,
it is very important to show that allegedly there is some process. In
G. Manoyan’s opinion, under the conditions the RA President should
not leave for Turkey.