Yerevan November 02
Tatevik Shahunyan. During the February Munich Security Conference, the key issue will be the Karabakh settlement. The President of Armenia Armen Sargsyan said this in a conversation with journalists.
He noted that the initiative to discuss the Karabakh issue at the next conference belongs to him. "This will in no way hinder the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group, but rather contribute to it," said Sargsyan, adding that the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan will also attend the conference. According to the president, the Armenian side is the initiator in the Karabakh settlement.
"After all, it's in Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that offered to President Ilham Aliyev the agreements that provide for an armistice regime today," Sargsyan said, adding that Armenia cannot stay away from global geopolitical processes. "At such conferences, we understand that our destiny is in our hands," he stressed. During the conference itself, Sarkitsyan responded to the accusation of the Azerbaijani delegates that the second and third presidents of Armenia did not have the right to govern the country, since they were not its citizens: "Only the Armenian people have the right to raise questions of the legitimacy of the presidents of Armenia." Further, Sargsyan expressed concern about the militarization of Azerbaijan. "With this in mind, it can be stated that time does not play for the benefit of the world. There is a possibility of a chain reaction. There will soon be elections in Armenia, after which a legitimate power will be fully formed in the country, people who sit at the negotiating table will be elected, everyone the hands of the people ", – said Sargsyan. Calling to listen to the will of the Artsakh people, Sargsyan thanked the OSCE Minsk Group for the peacemaking efforts. "There is no military way of the Karabakh conflict if the war resumes, everyone will suffer – – Artsakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan," he concluded.
