THE KEY TO THE REGULATION OF THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT IS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE OF ARTSAKH: SHARMAZANOV
18:35, 24 February, 2015
YEREVAN, 24 FEBRUARY, ARMENPRESS. In 2009, the Republic of Armenia
initiated a process to establish relations with Turkey without
preconditions that could have contributed to the strengthening of
stability in the region. This is what Deputy Speaker of the National
Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov recalled during
the hour of announcements at the National Assembly. “The Republic
of Armenia had the moral right to set preconditions, but it didn’t
take that step since it was fully aware of the fact that setting
preconditions is not part of dialogue and democracy,” Sharmazanov
mentioned, as “Armenpress” reports.
He emphasized the fact that Turkey said one thing to the international
community, and another thing to the Republic of Armenia.
According to Sharmazanov, as we approach the Centennial of the
Armenian Genocide, instead of rejecting its policy, Turkey is linking
the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations to the regulation
of the Karabakh issue on the one hand, and is comparing the victim
and the criminal instead of confronting its past on the other hand,
and this is inadmissible.
According to Sharmazanov, Turkey does not have and cannot have anything
to do with the regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“The key to the regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is in the
hands of the people of Artsakh, that is, in Stepanakert. The people
of Artsakh must determine their fate,” he emphasized.