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Minsk Group co-chairs support border violence - opinion
18:02 * 24.07.14
Commenting on the recent statement by the co-chairs OSCE Minsk Group
(in which the mediators expressed concerns over the intensified
ceasefire violations across the Armenian-Azerbaijani borderline), a
former member of the Karabakh committee said he believes that the
mission itself is interested in border tensions.
"They might abate the border tensions just within a fraction of a
second, but no expectations at all," Ashot Manucharyan told Tert.am,
expressing skepticism over a positive outcome of proposed talks
between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Paris.
Asked why he thinks the mission could be behind the border attacks,
Manucharyan pointed out to the diverging interests of the West and
Russia.
"And what's the purpose of creating groups in Ukraine and later
sponsoring their deadly acts against one another? That's Russia on the
one hand and the consolidated West - on the other. The war which
Russia wages is in the financial-economic sector, and the world beyond
the West, is, as a matter of fact, consolidated with Russia to a
greater or lesser extent; but not as part of a military confrontation.
The main war is in the financial-economic domain. As for the other
countries, they are trying to break down Russia through warfare,
creating problems in countries close to Russia. So Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine are the right states for provoking
such problems," he added.
Commenting on possible steps to resist the violence, Manucharyan
called for consolidating the nation's intellectual potential.
"We are obliged to find intellectual and spiritual potential which we
undoubtedly have and managed to demonstrate [during the
national-liberation campaign] in 1988. We are no weaker today, so
those who remained outside can very effectively join [such a
campaign]. The Armenians, on the whole, have a great potential to
combine desires with real objectives, but we do not kind of feel like
doing that," he added.
Asked to comment on the mediators' proposal for mutual dialogues,
Manucharyan replied, "That was what we were busy with when the
superpowers meddled with our affairs. We maintained very close
contacts with many people in Azerbaijan; we would often meet and talk.
When the 'great' powers came and said, 'you have to hate and kill each
other', we started killing each other on the border."
Armenian News - Tert.am
18:02 * 24.07.14
Commenting on the recent statement by the co-chairs OSCE Minsk Group
(in which the mediators expressed concerns over the intensified
ceasefire violations across the Armenian-Azerbaijani borderline), a
former member of the Karabakh committee said he believes that the
mission itself is interested in border tensions.
"They might abate the border tensions just within a fraction of a
second, but no expectations at all," Ashot Manucharyan told Tert.am,
expressing skepticism over a positive outcome of proposed talks
between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Paris.
Asked why he thinks the mission could be behind the border attacks,
Manucharyan pointed out to the diverging interests of the West and
Russia.
"And what's the purpose of creating groups in Ukraine and later
sponsoring their deadly acts against one another? That's Russia on the
one hand and the consolidated West - on the other. The war which
Russia wages is in the financial-economic sector, and the world beyond
the West, is, as a matter of fact, consolidated with Russia to a
greater or lesser extent; but not as part of a military confrontation.
The main war is in the financial-economic domain. As for the other
countries, they are trying to break down Russia through warfare,
creating problems in countries close to Russia. So Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine are the right states for provoking
such problems," he added.
Commenting on possible steps to resist the violence, Manucharyan
called for consolidating the nation's intellectual potential.
"We are obliged to find intellectual and spiritual potential which we
undoubtedly have and managed to demonstrate [during the
national-liberation campaign] in 1988. We are no weaker today, so
those who remained outside can very effectively join [such a
campaign]. The Armenians, on the whole, have a great potential to
combine desires with real objectives, but we do not kind of feel like
doing that," he added.
Asked to comment on the mediators' proposal for mutual dialogues,
Manucharyan replied, "That was what we were busy with when the
superpowers meddled with our affairs. We maintained very close
contacts with many people in Azerbaijan; we would often meet and talk.
When the 'great' powers came and said, 'you have to hate and kill each
other', we started killing each other on the border."
Armenian News - Tert.am