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CHICAGO NATO SUMMIT 2012: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES MESSAGE TO RUSSIAN COUNTERPART
tert.am
22.05.12
By not participating in the Chicago NATO Summit 2012, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan addressed a message to his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with Tert.am, political scientist Edgar Vardanyan
noted that the Armenian leader is thus showing his agreement on
foreign policy with his Russian counterpart.
"Putin boycotted the event, and Serzh Sargsyan addressed a message to
Vladimir Putin, suggesting he agrees with official Moscow's position
on the key foreign policy issues. I do not think that, if Putin had
gone to the summit, Sargsyan would have refused to participate,"
the expert said.
With respect to Armenian FM Edward Nalbandyan's arguments that the
Armenian president did not participate in the summit because a draft
resolution adopted at the summit contained a generalized provision
on Karabakh, which conflicts with the approaches of the Minsk Group
co-chairs, Vardanyan disagreed with the arguments that the draft
contained anti-Armenian wordings.
"To tell the truth, I did not find any wordings not in Armenians'
favor in the draft. It contains clear references to the legal basis the
West has always referred to, and neither the international community
nor Armenia objected," Vardanyan said.
As to the draft resolution mentioning the fact of NATO admitting the
territorial integrity of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia,
it does not mean that NATO states the conflict must be settled on
the basis on territorial integrity.
"The mention has nothing in common with this. Otherwise, what is the
sense of mentioning Armenia's territorial integrity? It is absurd
to mention Armenia's territorial integrity in the context of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and such a thing has never been done,"
Vardanyan said.
Both NATO and the international minority say they view territorial
integrity as a fundamental principle, without confronting it to the
settlement of the conflict.
In its draft resolution, NATO showed this principle. So it would
be wrong to say that the draft resolution is an anti-Armenian one,
Vardanyan said.
tert.am
22.05.12
By not participating in the Chicago NATO Summit 2012, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan addressed a message to his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with Tert.am, political scientist Edgar Vardanyan
noted that the Armenian leader is thus showing his agreement on
foreign policy with his Russian counterpart.
"Putin boycotted the event, and Serzh Sargsyan addressed a message to
Vladimir Putin, suggesting he agrees with official Moscow's position
on the key foreign policy issues. I do not think that, if Putin had
gone to the summit, Sargsyan would have refused to participate,"
the expert said.
With respect to Armenian FM Edward Nalbandyan's arguments that the
Armenian president did not participate in the summit because a draft
resolution adopted at the summit contained a generalized provision
on Karabakh, which conflicts with the approaches of the Minsk Group
co-chairs, Vardanyan disagreed with the arguments that the draft
contained anti-Armenian wordings.
"To tell the truth, I did not find any wordings not in Armenians'
favor in the draft. It contains clear references to the legal basis the
West has always referred to, and neither the international community
nor Armenia objected," Vardanyan said.
As to the draft resolution mentioning the fact of NATO admitting the
territorial integrity of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia,
it does not mean that NATO states the conflict must be settled on
the basis on territorial integrity.
"The mention has nothing in common with this. Otherwise, what is the
sense of mentioning Armenia's territorial integrity? It is absurd
to mention Armenia's territorial integrity in the context of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and such a thing has never been done,"
Vardanyan said.
Both NATO and the international minority say they view territorial
integrity as a fundamental principle, without confronting it to the
settlement of the conflict.
In its draft resolution, NATO showed this principle. So it would
be wrong to say that the draft resolution is an anti-Armenian one,
Vardanyan said.