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REFUSAL TO ATTEND CHICAGO SUMMIT - SHORTEST WAY TO SELF-ISOLATION, EX-FM SAYS
TERT.AM
22.05.12
Armenia's ex-foreign minister, PAP member Vartan Oskanian put a
comment on his Facebook page on the refusal of Armenia's President
Serzh Sargsyan to participate in the NATO Summit in Chicago.
According to him, he would have understood the wish of the President,
unless the explanation of the Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
about the generalized clause on Karabakh in the draft resolution of
the Summit. Oskanian stressed being in Chicago would have enabled
the president to raise and discuss Armenia's issues with leaders of
world powers.
"This comment [Edward Nalbandian's] is a position of a loser. It is
what Azerbaijan would like Armenia to understand. Secondly, it is
the shortest way to self-isolation," Oskanian wrote.
The Nagorno Karabakh issue is not within NATO's authorities,
thus this formulation should not be taken as a ground. "If such a
formulation appeared in the OSCE documents, I would have understood
such approach," he said, claiming that the draft resolution does not
fix that the Karabakh conflict should be settled within the framework
of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. It just registers the current
de jure situation.
"If guided by this logic Armenian president should not visit Iran,
Georgia and many other countries," he said. "Everything would have
been all right if not the official explanation for not attending the
Summit," Oskanian concluded.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
TERT.AM
22.05.12
Armenia's ex-foreign minister, PAP member Vartan Oskanian put a
comment on his Facebook page on the refusal of Armenia's President
Serzh Sargsyan to participate in the NATO Summit in Chicago.
According to him, he would have understood the wish of the President,
unless the explanation of the Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
about the generalized clause on Karabakh in the draft resolution of
the Summit. Oskanian stressed being in Chicago would have enabled
the president to raise and discuss Armenia's issues with leaders of
world powers.
"This comment [Edward Nalbandian's] is a position of a loser. It is
what Azerbaijan would like Armenia to understand. Secondly, it is
the shortest way to self-isolation," Oskanian wrote.
The Nagorno Karabakh issue is not within NATO's authorities,
thus this formulation should not be taken as a ground. "If such a
formulation appeared in the OSCE documents, I would have understood
such approach," he said, claiming that the draft resolution does not
fix that the Karabakh conflict should be settled within the framework
of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. It just registers the current
de jure situation.
"If guided by this logic Armenian president should not visit Iran,
Georgia and many other countries," he said. "Everything would have
been all right if not the official explanation for not attending the
Summit," Oskanian concluded.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress