VARTAN OSKANIAN: PRESENT FOREIGN POLICY ANTIPODAL TO FORMER
news.am
Dec 28 2009
Armenia
"We were members of one team, supporting one and the same foreign
policy, and I did not expect such processes to take place in this
field," the former Armenian foreign minister Vartan Oskanian stated,
commenting on RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s foreign policy.
According to him, the present foreign policy is antipodal to that
pursued by the former authorities.
According to Oskanian, all of Armenia’s problems, whether political or
economic ones, are in monopolism. "If we fail to create alternatives,
we will not be able to resolve any problems. We amended the
Constitution to create alternatives and counterbalances, bu the
authorities usurped the power," Oskanian said.
As regards foreign policy challenges, Oskanian stressed that the
way out of any difficult situation can be founded provided internal
consolidation exists in Armenia. Speaking of the present stage of
the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, he said: "Unfortunately, they in
Europe believe that the issue of territories has been settled under
a package agreement. So they are waiting for progress and for the
Armenian-Turkish border to be reopened. We have to make them change
their opinion," Oskanian said.