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    "NAGORNO-KARABAKH WILL NOT STAY APART"

    A1+
    [04:23 pm] 05 November, 2008

    "I can only make a positive assessment of the Moscow trilateral
    declaration regarding the Karabakh conflict resolution. I don't share
    the prevalent belief that Karabakh is left out of the negotiation
    process," the head of the Armenian delegation to the PACE and
    Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affair,
    Davit Harutiunyan, said to A1+ on November 5.

    "Political negotiations are impossible without Karabakh's engagement
    in the talks. I find the declaration an important achievement. After
    the Ossetian events everyone realised that the war is not the right
    solution to the conflict settlement. The war even leads the issue to
    a deadlock where it is far more difficult to find a way out. I think
    that the Ossetian war taught everyone a good lesson. The declaration
    evidences that we are stepping a rational phase where the sides are
    ready to cede and benefit. There are neither winners nor losers in
    the process of negotiations. The settlement of the Karabakh conflict
    is excluded without Karabakh's involvement.

    Today Davit Harutiunyan also spoke about the implementation of PACE
    Resolutions 1609 and 1620 and PACE's demand to free people detained
    for their political views, in particular those imprisoned on the
    basis of policemen's evidence.

    "I think the best way to solve the issue of people arrested or
    imprisoned after the March 1 events is amnesty," he said. In reply
    to the question why Serzh Sargsyan hasn't granted amnesty yet, Davit
    Harutiunyan said, "It is within the authorities of the president,
    and I do not know the reasons."

    "All detainees who have not pleaded guilty though their verdicts have
    been announced are also eligible for amnesty. And all those who have
    not been convicted yet may reject general pardon and have their case
    go for trial because they are sure to be acquitted. If nevertheless
    the court does not acquit them, they will be pardoned.

    Saying that the best solution is amnesty, Davit Harutiunyan also
    noted that there is time for other solutions as well. When asked to
    detail those solutions, Harutiunyan said pardon could be a solution
    or the court of cassation which sets the rules of the game regarding
    the application of the law may decide in which case the testimony of
    a policeman is acceptable and in which case it is not. If the court
    doesn't justify the arrestee it doesn't mean he cannot be pardoned.

    Davit Harutiunyan noted that Armenian has received recommendations
    from the PACE which can be either accepted or denied but at present
    they don't think it expedient to deny them.
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