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AIRPORT ISN'T FOR KARABAKH PEOPLE'S COMFORT
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/28042
Politics - Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 16:12
A letter on behalf of the foreign minister of NKR was spread in the
UN, which runs that Azerbaijan launched a campaign against the opening
of the Stepanakert airport.
The letter is a sign that the NKR MFA, after Karen Mirzoyan's
appointment as minister, started working, and is going to use the
international platforms. Though there have been other cases when
Karabakh appealed to the UN, but there have been no results. Not
considering that once the minister of Armenia delivered a speech at
UNESCO about the rights of the Karabakh youth.
Despite being unrecognized, Palestine is a "subject-representative"
to the UN, Karabakh is not even represented in the negotiations of
its conflict. Apparently, it is time to fill the gap.
It is a different matter whether the letter by the Karabakh minister
enjoy attention. The problem on the Stepanakert airport is coming out
of the frameworks of the solution of the banal transport problem of
Karabakh people. Sure, it is more comfortable to fly to Stepanakert
than to reach it by car. But, people have been reaching Karabakh
by car for many years, and the idea on the opening of the airport
will hardly be aimed at the solution of the transport issue of the
Karabakh population.
Who and why decided to build the airport, buy airplanes, who funded
the expensive project and why the mediators keep lobbying for the
opening of the airport?
It is difficult to find the answers to these questions, but it is
evident that the airport is ready to be exploited and only political
issues are left to be solved. They can be solved, apparently, in
the context o the strategy of the opening of the communications,
without the final settlement of conflicts.
Baku disagrees with something. Serzh Sargsyan, currently in France,
stated in his interview to Figaro that the recent meeting of the
foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Paris was to point
out the consent of the parties to continue negotiations, but it did
not give new hopes. Armenian President pointed out that Baku refuses
to recognize the principles proposed by the international mediators
as a basis for negotiations, and prefers to directly negotiate a
peace agreement. "However, a peace agreement can be viable only if
it is based on clear principles that are acceptable to all", said
President Sargsyan.
Apparently Baku proposes very unacceptable conditions. And Armenia
has no reasons to accept those preconditions. The Stepanakert airport
can wait.
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/28042
Politics - Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 16:12
A letter on behalf of the foreign minister of NKR was spread in the
UN, which runs that Azerbaijan launched a campaign against the opening
of the Stepanakert airport.
The letter is a sign that the NKR MFA, after Karen Mirzoyan's
appointment as minister, started working, and is going to use the
international platforms. Though there have been other cases when
Karabakh appealed to the UN, but there have been no results. Not
considering that once the minister of Armenia delivered a speech at
UNESCO about the rights of the Karabakh youth.
Despite being unrecognized, Palestine is a "subject-representative"
to the UN, Karabakh is not even represented in the negotiations of
its conflict. Apparently, it is time to fill the gap.
It is a different matter whether the letter by the Karabakh minister
enjoy attention. The problem on the Stepanakert airport is coming out
of the frameworks of the solution of the banal transport problem of
Karabakh people. Sure, it is more comfortable to fly to Stepanakert
than to reach it by car. But, people have been reaching Karabakh
by car for many years, and the idea on the opening of the airport
will hardly be aimed at the solution of the transport issue of the
Karabakh population.
Who and why decided to build the airport, buy airplanes, who funded
the expensive project and why the mediators keep lobbying for the
opening of the airport?
It is difficult to find the answers to these questions, but it is
evident that the airport is ready to be exploited and only political
issues are left to be solved. They can be solved, apparently, in
the context o the strategy of the opening of the communications,
without the final settlement of conflicts.
Baku disagrees with something. Serzh Sargsyan, currently in France,
stated in his interview to Figaro that the recent meeting of the
foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Paris was to point
out the consent of the parties to continue negotiations, but it did
not give new hopes. Armenian President pointed out that Baku refuses
to recognize the principles proposed by the international mediators
as a basis for negotiations, and prefers to directly negotiate a
peace agreement. "However, a peace agreement can be viable only if
it is based on clear principles that are acceptable to all", said
President Sargsyan.
Apparently Baku proposes very unacceptable conditions. And Armenia
has no reasons to accept those preconditions. The Stepanakert airport
can wait.