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KARABAKH'S JOINING PEACE TALKS TO BE LONG-DRAWN-OUT PROCESS - SPOKESMAN
TERT.AM
12.07.12
Photo by Gagik Shamshyan
It will take the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) many years to join
the conflict settlement talks, a press secretary for the country's
president has said, commenting upon the mediators' recent statement
promising Karabakh's participation in the peace process.
"That will take years, but at the present moment, it is necessary
to do everything possible to bring the process on a normal track,"
David Babayan, the head of the Central Information Department at the
NKR Presidential Office, told Tert.am.
It comes after the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors
Robert Bradtke of the United States, Jacques Faure of France and
Igor Popov of France, said in Stepanakert that the country will be
involved in the current peace talks sometime in the future.
Noting that the diplomats had periodically voiced similar opinions
before, Babayan said that their statements seem more clearly defined
now.
A former foreign minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arman Melikyan,
said in this connection that he does not have any expectations of
such statements, as the issue has been addressed several times over
years since the resolution requiring the country to cede lands to
Azerbaijan in return for the recognition of its people's rights to
self-determination was elaborated.
"It turns out actually that the Madrid Principles and the rest of
issues are previously agreed upon with Azerbaijan and Armenia, with
Artsakh facing only the fact," he said.
Melikyan believes that the existing agenda leaves Karabakh no other
choice but to give consent to an agreement already signed.
President of the Union of Political Scientists Hmayak Hovhannisyan
finds the co-chairs' statement an advance step ahead of the
presidential polls in Karabakh.
"This attaches a double value to the statement," he said.
As for the "messages" voiced by world community within selected
timeframes, Hovhannisyan attributed them to the co-chairs' stance on
the issue, particularly the fact that they admit in an implicit manner
that Karabakh is a de facto accomplished state with its institutions
and democratic policies.
From: A. Papazian
TERT.AM
12.07.12
Photo by Gagik Shamshyan
It will take the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) many years to join
the conflict settlement talks, a press secretary for the country's
president has said, commenting upon the mediators' recent statement
promising Karabakh's participation in the peace process.
"That will take years, but at the present moment, it is necessary
to do everything possible to bring the process on a normal track,"
David Babayan, the head of the Central Information Department at the
NKR Presidential Office, told Tert.am.
It comes after the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors
Robert Bradtke of the United States, Jacques Faure of France and
Igor Popov of France, said in Stepanakert that the country will be
involved in the current peace talks sometime in the future.
Noting that the diplomats had periodically voiced similar opinions
before, Babayan said that their statements seem more clearly defined
now.
A former foreign minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arman Melikyan,
said in this connection that he does not have any expectations of
such statements, as the issue has been addressed several times over
years since the resolution requiring the country to cede lands to
Azerbaijan in return for the recognition of its people's rights to
self-determination was elaborated.
"It turns out actually that the Madrid Principles and the rest of
issues are previously agreed upon with Azerbaijan and Armenia, with
Artsakh facing only the fact," he said.
Melikyan believes that the existing agenda leaves Karabakh no other
choice but to give consent to an agreement already signed.
President of the Union of Political Scientists Hmayak Hovhannisyan
finds the co-chairs' statement an advance step ahead of the
presidential polls in Karabakh.
"This attaches a double value to the statement," he said.
As for the "messages" voiced by world community within selected
timeframes, Hovhannisyan attributed them to the co-chairs' stance on
the issue, particularly the fact that they admit in an implicit manner
that Karabakh is a de facto accomplished state with its institutions
and democratic policies.
From: A. Papazian