“There are hostilities, here- ceasefire” (video)
Beginning from 1994 to 1998, Karabakh was a full party of the conflict settlement talks. The Vice President of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Zurabyan replies to the statement of the former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, that the NKR was left out of the negotiation process in 1997, when Levon Ter-Petrosyan was still the president of the RA, “Ask Mr Oskanian, whether in 1998 the proposal of the united state was sent to three negotiating parties or not. The only answer to all these questions is ‘yes’.” Promising to open the brackets more in the future, Mr Zurabyan simply highlighted that as a result of Key West process in 2001, when Robert Kocharyan was the president of the RA and Vartan Oskanian was the Foreign Minister, the official proposals were sent only to Yerevan and Baku, “Just due to the Key West talks Karabakh was left out of the process. It is the process, which buried the participation of the NKR in the negotiation process.” Touching upon the meeting of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Serzh Sargsyan, Levon Zurabyan noted that it isn’t support to Serzh Sargsyan but to the national unity, “Our speeches were printed and sent to soldiers, as it was taken into account, that it has great positive impact on the soldiers. He reminds, Levon Ter-Petrosyan knows very well how to act during hostilities, “There are hostilities, here is ceasefire, there is a peaceful situation, the ceasefire ends here.” In reply to the question why Robert Kocharyan had a negative attitude toward the meeting, Levon Zurabyan has one answer, “Maybe he hasn’t read history. He doesn’t know how powers of state thinking behave in such situations.”
