Masis Mailyan: The trilateral format of negotiations should be resumed
04.01.2010 17:28
Nvard Davtyan
`Radiolur’
Ex-Foreign Minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, NKR Social
Council for External Policy and Security Masis Mailyan says the world
paid greater attention to our region in 2009. It was mostly connected
with the process of normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations,
which brought about some activeness in the Karabakh settlement, as
well. In 2009 an attempt was made to involve the civil society in the
process.
During their visits to the region the Minsk Group Co-Chairs talked to
representatives of the civil society. `This actually means that the
Co-Chairs understood that it is necessary to listen to the opinion of
the civil society of Karabakh, because, at last, it’s their fate that
is being determined,’ Masis Mailyan said.
According to him, speaking about the solution of the issue or the
signing of a document is untimely today, since the process continues
in a distorted format without the participation of Karabakh. `The
principles under discussion are unrealistic, the methodology of the
international mediators cannot register serious progress,’ he said
Nevertheless, according to Masis Mailyan, Armenia should continue the
negotiations, trying to resume the trilateral format
(Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh), change the methodology and the Madrid
Principles unacceptable to the people of Artsakh.
From: Baghdasarian