Nalbandian Was Not Yet Born When ARF-D Was Conducting Negotiations

15:34 – 13.03.10

A statement made by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has
disgruntled Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or
ARF-D) Bureau member Vahan Hovhannisyan.

`The minister, in his typical style, said that those forces requiring
his [Nalbandian’s] withdrawal are irresponsible and that they would
have understood how difficult it was to carry negotiate, should they
have ever tried to conduct negotiations,’ said Hovhannisyan at a press
conference today.

`I want to mention that Dashnaktsutyun was conducting negotiations and
was doing it successfully before Nalbandian was born or when he was
born but was still attending school. There is no need to teach us how
to carry negotiations. The minister thinks he has such special skills
to conduct negotiations that others do not. While American colleagues
have said during meetings that there are preconditions in the
Protocols, which is acceptable for Armenia. If the skill to conduct
negotiations is just saying `come here, please’ or `yes’ to
everything, then we do not have that skill, we would’ve carry out
negotiations in another way,’ explained Hovhannisyan.
He also recalled that it was due to efforts by the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau’s Hay Dat (`Armenian Cause’)
that the international approach to the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide changed in Armenia’s favour.

Tert.am