WHEN SAYING ‘TERRITORY’, WE MEAN THE CURRENT ACTUAL TERRITORY OF ARTSAKH: NKR PRIME MINISTER

ArmInfo
2009-11-03 12:23:00

ArmInfo. ‘When saying ‘territory’, we mean the current actual
territory of Artsakh. The territory of Karabakh is the territory,
secured by the republic’s Constitution, and we are not ready to make
concessions as regards territories’, leader of Free Motherland party,
NKR Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan told journalists, ArmInfo reports.

When speaking of the Madrid principles of the Karabakh conflict
settlement, A. Harutyunyan said that Artsakh did not officially
receive this document, and ‘we know about them from newspapers and
other news, that cannot be a document for us’. ‘Both our president
and the president of Armenia used to say that any document would be
accepted by the Armenian and NKR authorities only after approval by the
people. So, we have no right to doubt in this aspect, we must trust,
as the final word will rest with the people’, the PM said.

Touching on the process of settlement of the Armenian-Turkish
relations, A. Harutyunyan said that those in the NKR also pin hopes
on them, in particular, in the economic aspect, and that Armenia’s
economic development also implies economic development of Artsakh.

‘All of us realizes that this is the way for the country to develop.

However, it should happen without preconditions. Opening of the border
does not mean acceptance of conditions and requirements’, A.

Harutyunyan said and added that Free Motherland party fully trusts
in the Armenian president’s policy.