Analyst: Armenia, Azerbaijan authorities’ views on Artsakh issue coincide

News.am, Armenia

One of the questions most frequently asked to me during the [election] campaign, at various platforms, was: "How do you see the process of settlement of the Artsakh issue? From which point should start? On what basis?” etc. Analyst Tigran Abrahamyan, a former security adviser to the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) President and an MP candidate from the opposition "I Have Honor" bloc of Armenia, wrote about this on Facebook.

"In fact, the current authorities [of Armenia] either do not speak or make some incoherent wording about this key issue for Armenia and Artsakh.

And there is no public demand, too, to make understand or find out what the authorities will do in connection with this process.

The authorities, of course, have a position in connection with this issue, which will not be made public.

The views of Armenia and Azerbaijan’s authorities coincide, with some detailed differences, on this matter: there is no Artsakh issue, the matter is closed.

Those who think that the Artsakh matter, or its settlement, refers only to Artsakh Armenians are grossly mistaken.

The Artsakh matter has a direct link with the personal security of Armenia and any Armenian living in Armenia, and such an inglorious closing of the topic is a direct threat to each of us," Abrahamyan added, in particular.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS