PEOPLE ARE NOT PAWNS
Wolf Brown
KarabakhOpen
19-06-2007 11:38:23
No decision on settlement of a region can be made without annexation.
Israel, for instance, first assisted in the settlement of Gaza area,
but in 2005 the government decided on "unilateral disengagement"
and evacuation of Jews and pullout of force. I consider annexation
the right step but it turned out that Israel abused the settlers. You
cannot make promises to people and then change your mind.
According to Oskanyan, the "red line" in the talks is the independence
of NKR in the territory of former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region
and control over the Lachin corridor. One may agree with him or not,
but the stance is clear, and unless NKR annexes once and for all one
territory or another, it cannot be settled. People are not pawns.