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“KARABAKH IS ARMENIA, BUT NOT REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA”

Politics

“Everyone who contributed to Nagorno-Karabakh being omitted from the OSCE Minsk Group format, is carrying the responsible for Karabakh’s not participating in the negotiations”, announced NKR Presidential Advisor on Political Affairs Arman Melikyan. Clarifying the names of the responsible, Mr Melikyan mentioned the names of Co-Chairmen, who caused the alteration of negotiation format and the conflict settlement negotiations turned to the meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents.

He finds this format “false”, since it cannot express the essence of the conflict entirely and find solutions to them. And as he noted, the false format will become real when NKR re-establishes its rights in the negotiation process. Arman Melikyan does not think that Robert Kocharyan represents Karabakh in the negotiations, he represents Armenia.

By the way, the Minsk Group Co-Chairmen also find the participation of Karabakh in the negotiation process important. Melikyan also, like the Co-Chairmen, was unable to mention the time when Karabakh will be involved in the negotiations.

To the question of A1+ why in the US State Department’s Annual Report on Human Rights Karabakh is presented as a territory occupied by the RA, Armen Melikyan stated that the State Department often made contradictory statements which were the result of the absence of a concrete unified political idea on the problem.

Arman Melikyan also stated the responsibility of the Armenian part pointing that no sufficient efforts were made to prove that Nagorno-Karabakh should not be identified with Armenia. “Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenia, but it is not the Republic of Armenia”, noted Arman Melikyan.

As to the return of the refugees, Arman Melikyan pointed out that the Armenian part would agree with the return of the refugees, as well as the return of the refugees from Baku, Kirovabad and Shahumyan. “If a single principle is not agreed, then nothing is agreed”, Arman Melikyan almost repeated the idea of the Co-Chairmen.