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    ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES TO REPORT 1991 REFERENDUM RESULTS IN NKR AT TALKS: ARFD

    news.am
    May 7 2010
    Armenia

    Dynamically changing geopolitical situation in the region incites new
    challenges entailing the following question: how many independent
    states will be in the South Caucasus, chairman of the ARFD Supreme
    Council of Armenia and the head of the Standing Committee on Foreign
    Relations Armen Rustamyan said at ARFD Hay Dat committees' conference.

    "Today the priority is to determine the number of independent states
    in the South Caucasus (3 states, 3+1, 3+2 or 3+3). One of the main
    regional actors, Russia with constantly increasing role in the region
    to date adhered to the concept of three independent states. However,
    after Russia-Georgia war, Moscow's strategy changed and presently
    it backs 3+2 formula, comprising Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan plus
    Abkhazia and Ossetia. Azerbaijan-Turkey alliance is ready to support
    this idea unless it turns into 3+3, the mentioned countries plus
    Nagorno-Karabakh," Rustamyan specified, stressing it is the main
    reason for Turkey's aspiration to participate in Karabakh peace
    process. "However, Iran also expressed readiness to participate in the
    talks on Karabakh, facing official Yerevan's silence. ARFD does not
    veil its position that Iran's involvement in the process is tantamount
    to that of Ankara. Although Iran is not OSCE member, it should not
    be isolated from the process," he stated, adding that changes in OSCE
    Minsk Group format proposed by Baku and Ankara are inadmissible.

    ARFD member emphasized that Karabakh peace process entered a new stage,
    when Armenian side cannot keep its passive posture. "Karabakhi people
    expressed their will in a referendum, self-determining in the territory
    that is de facto within NKR administrative boundaries. This should be
    reported de jure by Armenian authorities at the negotiating table,"
    he concluded.
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