SEVAK SARUKHANYAN: IRAN’S MEDIATION NOT IN ARMENIA’S INTEREST
Hasmik Dilanyan
"Radiolur"
21.04.2010 15:10
"Armenia will not benefit if Iran acts as a mediator in the Karabakh
conflict settlement process," Deputy Director of the Noravank
Foundation, Iranologist Sevak Sarukhanyan told a press conference
today.
Armenia is not interested in the change of the OSCE Minsk Group
formant, he said, adding that "the change proceeds from the interests
of Azerbaijan, which wishes to fail the agreements reached earlier."
Sevak Sarukhanyan positively assessed the current stage of the
Armenian-Iranian relations. "Maybe I would assess those as satisfactory
five years ago, but after the construction of the gas pipeline the
cooperation has reached a new level. It’s important that we implement
all the economic and energy projects envisaged. These include increase
of the volume of electric energy exported to Iran and construction
of a new 400 MWth Electric Power Plant on Arax River."