EVERYONE MUST RECOGNISE THE INDEPENDENCE OF NKR

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Arman Melikyan, the NKR President’s Foreign Policy Advisor, is not delighted by the announcements on the existing open windows and doors in connection with the Karabakh conflict settlement.

The conflict cannot be settled in the close future because of the contradictions among the negotiating parties.

Taking into consideration the announcements of the NKR authorities that hardly any decision can be made without their participation, the journalists tried to find out whether there are not any contradictions between the official Yerevan and Stepanakert.

“We had better stay aside from contradictions as Stepanakert also agreed to participate in the negotiations. We must be concerned about the fact that the negotiations haven’t given positive results yet. We must say, that the negotiations aren’t sufficient on this score,” said the advisor to the president.

By the way, according to the draft constitution of the NKR (the referendum of which will be held on December 10) NKR is proclaimed as sovereign country, whereas the Karabakh conflict is far from being settled in the nearest future. “I see no problems in this respect as the negotiations of the conflict may last for 150 years and even more.”

We mustn’t wait for Azerbaijan to recognise Karabakh’s independence. Karabakh has already proclaimed its independence and the Constitution referendum tesstifies to this.

Everybody, including Armenia, should realize that NKR is an independent country. “

Mr. Melikyan assures that after gaining such status the NKR authorities will be able to ensure the security of their residents better.

He also tried to compare the 1998 negotiations with the current ones, “Provided the conflict was finally settled, we could speak of obvious success”.