KARABAKH AUTHORITIES HOSTAGE TO ARMENIA: ARMAN MELIKYAN

Tert.am
13.04.10

"The Karabakh authorities have become a hostage of the policy pursued
by the Armenian authorities," former Foreign Minister of the Republic
of Nagorno Karabakh, Arman Melikyan, said at a press conference today,
adding that he is against that Karabakh return to negotiations.

In his words the current negotiation process is based on the thesis
that it was Armenia that unleashed the war.

"The current negotiation agenda starts from 1992, while the real
problem emerged in 1988 when the Karabakh people countered to the
Azerbaijani pogroms with its right to live independently, which
prompted Azerbaijan to unleash the war," said Melikyan.

Melikyan also said that the logic of negotiations over the
Nagorno-Karabakh is wrong: should the negotiations have started from
the right point, it would be possible to present the issue to the
international community properly.