SAMVEL BABAYAN DID NOT SAY

Lragir.am
11/05/10

On May 11, reporters asked Ashot Manucharyan his opinion about the
statements of Samvel Babayan made weeks ago, as if the Karabakh
victory has been exhausted during the last 14 years. In answer to
reporters’ request to give names of those who exhausted it, Samvel
Babayan mentioned only Andranik Kocharyan and Ashot Manucharyan.

Ashot Manucharyan said that Samvel Babayan’s statement was a surprise
for him. "I met him a couple of months ago, and there was no word
about exhausting the victory", says Manucharyan.

As to the opinion that the victory has been exhausted, according to
Manucharyan, it is true. According to him, the depletion happened in
the form of selection of the philosophical life of the country. The
philosophical selection is to be blamed for the depletion, says
Ashot Manucharyan.

Dwelling on the issue of liberated areas, Ashot Manucharyan says that
the Armenian power did not have to dwell on them as a security belt.

"Only Karabakh could say such a thing. It could say that those are
territories, which Karabakh got as a result of a racist war. All
what is happening, solves only one question: separate people, who
say that they are the one to solve issues, solve their problems and
earn money, while Armenian and Azerbaijani youths may war and die",
says Ashot Manucharyan.

He brings the example of Chinese people, according to whom, good
commander is not the one which kills all the enemy, but the one, who,
thanks to their tactics, without fight, makes the enemy cede. Ashot
Manucharyan says that after war, Armenia had the chance to establish
peace in Caucasus but it did not use it.