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    KARABAKH POLITICAL FORCES DEMAND STEPANAKERT'S ROLE IN PEACE TALKS
    Lusine Musayelian

    www.azatutyun.am
    July 16 2009

    A number of political forces in Karabakh have called for participation
    of this unrecognized Armenian republic in the negotiating process
    currently conducted between Armenia and Azerbaijan and warned against
    "jeopardizing" the security of the people living in the area.

    In a joint statement issued on Thursday, eight political parties,
    among them four represented in the unrecognized state's parliament,
    said that "the ouster of Karabakh from the negotiating process,
    the actual disregard of its statehood and the manifestations of
    discriminative approaches towards the resolution of the conflict
    at the current stage doom the efforts in the Azerbaijani-Karabakh
    conflict settlement to failure."

    The statement presented by representative of the Karabakh Central
    Committee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun)
    David Ishkhanian also says:

    "We reiterate our demand - to respect the right to self-determination
    of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, to secure Nagorno-Karabakh's
    participation in the conflict settlement process as a full party,
    not to jeopardize the security of Nagorno-Karabakh's people, the main
    guarantee of which is the independent statehood of Nagorno-Karabakh
    and territorial integrity consolidated by the Nagorno-Karabakh
    constitution."

    The statement of the Karabakh political parties comes on the eve of
    President Serzh Sarkisian's visit to Russian capital Moscow where
    the Armenian leader is due to continue internationally mediated talks
    on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement with his Azerbaijani counterpart
    Ilham Aliev.
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