ACCORDING TO GARNIK ISAGULIAN, PESSIMISTIC ESTIMATIONS TO ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROCESS HAVE NO GROUNDS

Noyan Tapan
March 4, 2010

YEREVAN, MARCH 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The home political crisis that started
in 2008 in Armenia has been overcome. RA President’s Representative
Garnik Isagulian stated at a March 4 press conference. In his words,
the 2008 March 1 "clash" was really a serious problem for the state
but that problem was solved completely in the past two years. G.

Isagulian mentioning that the opposition boycotted the work of the NA
Ad-hoc Committee on Events Occurred on March 1-2 and Their Reasons
declared that today the opposition has no right to criticize the
efforts of the authorities in disclosure of the March 1 events and
liquidation of their consequences.

G. Isagulian touching upon foreign policy mentioned that the
pessimistic estimations to the Armenian-Turkish process voiced by
some officials have no grounds. According to the speaker, the RA
President treats the Armenian-Turkish negotiations with responsibility
and inflexibility, which gives a basis to think that Armenia will
not suffer.

G. Isagulian also touched upon the statements first RA President
Levon Ter-Petrosian made at the March 1 rally that Turkey has already
achieved its goal by suspending the international recognition of
the Genocide and seven regions will be ceded to Azerbaijan under the
already signed document. G. Isagulian considers that thus authors of
such statements send a message to the outer world about where Armenia
can reach in its concessions. He advised Armenian politicians to learn
what is spoken in various places and in case of possessing facts to
"put them on the table." "If they have information about ceding the
seven regions let them present it," he said.