IN THE NEXT PHASE OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROCESS

Lragir.am
11/05/10

Armenia does not have foreign policy but it only responses to the
policy of others. This is the opinion of the former adviser of the
Armenian president on national security issues Ashot Manucharyan.

According to him, Armenia did not initiate the Armenian and Turkish
process. He says the initiator keeps the process under control, while
Armenia does not have control over the Armenian and Turkish process.

"I think Armenia has been involved in this process. There are cases
when it is dangerous not to be involved. For example in 1992, the U.S.

proposed to Armenia to get engaged in the Minsk group work. It was
obvious then that the Minsk group, at least for the national security
system, had nothing in common with the NKR issue. It is a means of the
U.S. to control the situation in the region. Armenia cannot but agree
with the U.S." Ashot Manucharyan notes that Armenia made a mistake
to make the Minsk group process its own process of settlement of the
NKR dispute.

According to him, being involved in the Armenian and Turkish process,
Armenia did not manage to get use of it. "Not the Republic of Armenia
but Armenia had to take part in this process", says Ashot Manucharyan,
meaning the Republic of Armenia, the Diaspora and the Republic of
Karabakh. According to him, Armenians are the only nation, which
as a result of genocide, is spread all over the world, but did not
get any compensation. According to him, there are creative group of
youths today, which realize all these issues and look for formulas
and decisions.