REPUBLICAN MP RULES OUT PROGRESS IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT UNTIL 2009
Armenpress
Oct 11 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS: A parliament member from the ruling
Republican Party predicted today that a real window of opportunity
to settle the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will likely to
start outlining in 2009 or at best in 2010.
Armen Ashotian, who is the youngest lawmaker in the 131-member
legislative, said all optimistic forecasts made earlier this year
that a major breakthrough is possible this year will remain as
forecasts only.
"The year is moving swiftly towards the end but there are no
indications, even slightest signs of a possible breakthrough in
the solution efforts ," he argued, citing also the decision of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to transfer
hearing of a report on the Karabakh conflict to 2007 and the delay
of a PACE monitoring commission’s visit to the region to ground
his deduction.
"European structures, at least on the level of the Council of Europe
are realizing well that the problem cannot be settled before the end
of this year and this is why they have postponed all related meetings
until next year," he argued.
He said no progress could be expected in 2007 or 2008 either as these
are the years for holding parliamentary and presidential elections
in Armenia respectively.
He then moved to underscore a constitution that Nagorno-Karabakh
is going to adopt in December saying it would first reconfirm that
Nagorno-Karabakh is a sovereign state and it would also prove that
Karabakh has chosen the democratic path of development.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
