ARMENIAN EX-PREMIER: "NO DOCUMENT ON GIVING UP TERRITORIES WILL BE SIGNED"
Regnum, Russia
Aug. 8, 2006
"No document envisaging giving in five territories – the security
belt around Nagorno Karabakh – to the Azerbaijani side will be signed
between Yerevan and Baku. Otherwise, we shall put ourselves into a more
complicated position without settling the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,"
leader of Armenia’s National Democratic Union, former prime minister
Vazgen Manukyan has told a REGNUM correspondent.
According to him, it will be a gross mistake to sign such a document:
"Besides, the Nagorno Karabakh leadership will oppose such idea."
At the same time, Vazgen Manukyan notes that until it is fixed that
Nagorno Karabakh will never be a part of Azerbaijan, it is senseless
to speak about the territories, security and other issues. "The
deadlock we have today will last until it becomes clear to everyone
that Karabakh cannot be a part of Azerbaijan. There is no example in
the international practice that an independent republic that obtained
independence through military actions joined the same state under
any document," Manukyan concludes.