SHAHNAZARYAN’S INTRIGUE: AN OFFER THAT ONE CAN’T REFUSE

Aysor
Sept 17 2009
Armenia

The main task was and still remains "the problem of political
prisoners’ liberation" thinks David Shahnazaryan, a representative of
"Armenian National Congress". According to him there are nineteen
political prisoners in Armenia.

At the upcoming tomorrow’s meeting ANC will speak about both prisoners
and Armenian-Turkish relations, said Mr. Shahnazaryan.

"These protocols are scheduled to be signed in October, 13, and then
the document will be submitted to Parliament. Afterwards Turkey
will link the protocols’ realization with settlement of Karabakh
problem. Armenia’s Parliament will fulfill instructions received
from Presidential Administration, will immediately ratify or play a
theatrical performance – it depends on instructions," the politician
thinks.

Mr.Shahnazaryan noted with regret that too little has been done
for correction or suspension of the process. On ANC’s opinion,
when time for discussions in Parliament come he will make "an offer
that Armenia’s authorities can hardly refuse". What kind of proposal
Mr. Shahnazaryan didn’t specify offering to wait.

At the moment, in his opinion, if proposals of such type enter the
Parliament, no one can speak about success.

"In ANC’s statement is said that we always advocated the development
of Armenian-Turkish relations and found them as progressive view,
nonetheless, the historian’s committee is unacceptable to us."

It is Robert Kocharyan and Vardan Oskanyan’s guilt that issue of
Armenian Genocide had been blown. They had made it the object of
foreign policy.

"Kocharyan spoke at UN like a kid, afterwards Turkey made Armenian
Genocide a question of discussions," Mr. Shahnazaryan noted.

David Shahnazaryan is seeing another threat for Armenia – the worsening
relations with Georgia. According to him, Armenia faces the danger of
war, and Georgia, the country, connecting with the world, if Armenia
goes in war, "will become an Armenian Army’s feeding artery."