e shouldn’t forget that the first president has his interest in the country’s foreign and domestic policies. We may observe those two meetings within this logic. On the whole, nobody wonders, when Armenia’s political figures depart to the Republic of Artsakh, and have some meetings. In that case we shouldn’t be surprised as well,” he said.
“Azerbaijan has already started complaining to international organizations. Yesterday Azerbaijani Defense Minister officially reflected to it, stating that, basically, Armenia eliminates Minsk mandate.
HDP’s Paylan has said that he has been deliberately targeted in the fight erupted in Constitution Commission by AKP members for him being Armenian, and told that AKP members said “Garo is here, Garo is here” to each other.
“It’s not so. Government’s conclusion, rather than the draft is included on the agenda to be approved by the Government. According to the conclusion, recognition depends on further development of the situation. If Azerbaijan launches new military aggression, recognition of Nagorno Karabakh will be included on the agenda,” Kocharyan told
“I’d like the sides to settle their issues and be at the negotiation table, and not on the contact line,” Martynov said.
“Probability of wide-scale war shouldn’t be excluded, however, the world won’t allow big changes for this moment, although, probably, changes of kilometers may be recorded. Geo-political center isn’t interested in global changes to occur in the region. I consider there is a disguised big Russia-USA accord—Crimea, Donetsk, Artsakh and other issues. Currently we need a new document for negotiations, however, as soon as the situation hasn’t calmed down, it’s useless speaking of negotiations.”
A range of issues related to the wide-scale military operations unleashed by the adversary from 2 to 5 April were discussed during the meeting.
“Our conversation was about the issues which worry us today. You know the worries, confidence and firmness of both the Armenian leadership and the Karabakhi leadership. So I think the leadership is calmly and moderately doing whatever the current situation demands,” Ter-Petrosyan said.
Just a month ago likewise statement by any representative of Armenia’s authorities would be impossible. It was enough to speak of Armenia’s membership to CSTO, and any official would explain, ground and convince for hours, what an exclusive and irreplaceable security system CSTO is.
“At this stage, one of the crucial steps by the international community will be implementation of systemized land operations in Syria against terrorist groups. And it should be implemented as soon as possible. It’d be better if operations launched from Aleppo, which is separated into segments, and each of which is under the control of different groups,” Sargis Grigoryan said.
