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Haykakan Zhamanak , Armenia
June 5 2010
Medvedev will bring it to Armenia in August
Diplomatic circles are saying that Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev
will bring a final agreement on the Karabakh settlement to Armenia in
August.
Our diplomatic sources say that there has also been an agreement on
the deployment of peacekeeping forces in territories adjacent to
Karabakh. According to it, Kalbacar, Fuzuli and Agdam districts will
be ceded [Armenia will return the territories to Azerbaijan] at the
first stage. Russian troops will be deployed in Kalbacar, and US
troops in Fuzuli, and Azerbaijan will immediately start rehabilitation
work in Agdam. Thus, in fact, NATO troops will be stationed in Fuzuli,
which borders Iran, and probably Iran's growing interest in a Nagornyy
Karabakh settlement is linked to this circumstance. There are also
reports that [former Armenian President] Robert Kocharyan visited
Moscow in the week commencing on 24 April [- 30 May] and complained
saying: "What are you doing? We will have problems in the country
[Armenia]." However, they [the Russian authorities] explained that
[Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan has consented to the proposed
option and said that he had said "yes" to everything. We have
requested Kocharyan's office to officially clarify the report on his
Moscow visit. The head of Kocharyan's office, Viktor Soghomonyan, did
not answer our phone calls.
They are changing the Supreme Body
Against this background, the meeting of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation - Dashnaktsutyun, which started on 4 June, is quite
noteworthy. Naturally, the meeting is held beyond closed doors and is
held in Aghavnadzor [a resort area in Armenia's Kotayk Region]
although Dashnaks keep even the venue secret for unknown reasons. This
political force, which is one of Kocharyan's pillars, will discuss
political, PR, organizational issues, will approve resolutions for the
next two years of activities, and will also change the composition of
Dashnaktsutyun's supreme body.
Armen Rustamyan, the head of the parliamentary committee on foreign
relations, is the representative of Dashnaktsutyun's supreme body. It
is known that Dashnaktsutyun is split into two parts: part of it leans
towards Kocharyan, but there is another part that is working quite
well with Sargsyan. We asked a member of Dashnaktsutyun's Supreme
Body, Artyush Shahbazyan, what were new possible accents in case of
expected changes in the political line. "This will become clear at the
end of the meeting," he said.
From: A. Papazian
June 5 2010
Medvedev will bring it to Armenia in August
Diplomatic circles are saying that Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev
will bring a final agreement on the Karabakh settlement to Armenia in
August.
Our diplomatic sources say that there has also been an agreement on
the deployment of peacekeeping forces in territories adjacent to
Karabakh. According to it, Kalbacar, Fuzuli and Agdam districts will
be ceded [Armenia will return the territories to Azerbaijan] at the
first stage. Russian troops will be deployed in Kalbacar, and US
troops in Fuzuli, and Azerbaijan will immediately start rehabilitation
work in Agdam. Thus, in fact, NATO troops will be stationed in Fuzuli,
which borders Iran, and probably Iran's growing interest in a Nagornyy
Karabakh settlement is linked to this circumstance. There are also
reports that [former Armenian President] Robert Kocharyan visited
Moscow in the week commencing on 24 April [- 30 May] and complained
saying: "What are you doing? We will have problems in the country
[Armenia]." However, they [the Russian authorities] explained that
[Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan has consented to the proposed
option and said that he had said "yes" to everything. We have
requested Kocharyan's office to officially clarify the report on his
Moscow visit. The head of Kocharyan's office, Viktor Soghomonyan, did
not answer our phone calls.
They are changing the Supreme Body
Against this background, the meeting of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation - Dashnaktsutyun, which started on 4 June, is quite
noteworthy. Naturally, the meeting is held beyond closed doors and is
held in Aghavnadzor [a resort area in Armenia's Kotayk Region]
although Dashnaks keep even the venue secret for unknown reasons. This
political force, which is one of Kocharyan's pillars, will discuss
political, PR, organizational issues, will approve resolutions for the
next two years of activities, and will also change the composition of
Dashnaktsutyun's supreme body.
Armen Rustamyan, the head of the parliamentary committee on foreign
relations, is the representative of Dashnaktsutyun's supreme body. It
is known that Dashnaktsutyun is split into two parts: part of it leans
towards Kocharyan, but there is another part that is working quite
well with Sargsyan. We asked a member of Dashnaktsutyun's Supreme
Body, Artyush Shahbazyan, what were new possible accents in case of
expected changes in the political line. "This will become clear at the
end of the meeting," he said.
From: A. Papazian