IN NIKOL PASHINIAN’S WORDS, UNDER ROBERT KOCHARIAN ARMENIA CONSTANTLY
SUFFERS DEFEATS IN NAGORNO KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Since 1998 when Robert Kocharian
started to attend to Nagorno Karabakh problem Armenia constantly
suffers defeats. Nikol Pashinian, member of Alternative
public-political initiative, editor of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper,
stated this at the March 16 rally. In his words, as s result of RA
President’s wrong policy on Nagorno Karabakh conflict today Karabakh
is perceived as an "occupied territory" by the international
community.
N. Pashinian said that until 1998 NKR was a "full-value negotiations
side and NKR representative as equal sat at negotiations table with
representatives of U.S., France, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan." And
R. Kocharian, as Alternative’s member emphasized, "forced out"
representatives of NKR from this table as soon as he came to power.
N. Pashinian said that in 2005 the Council of Europe adopted a
resolution, in which for the first time the Armenian side was accused
of making ethnic cleansings in Karabakh and it was registered that
Armenia – member of CE, "occupied" territories of Azerbaijan, which is
also a member of CE. N. Pashinian reminded that the author of that
anti-Armenian resolution is the very David Atkinson who after his
visit to Stepanakert in 1992 made a report in CE, which "was
completely a pro-Armenian document." So, in the words of Haykakan
Zhamanak’s editor, in consequence of RA authorities’ incompetent
policy, D. Atkinson’s position to Nagorno Karabakh conflict also
changed for the worse.