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THEY JUST CONDEMNED AGAIN

Politics

“There is nobody more concerned about the pro-Armenian resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict than us,” said today press speaker of the Republican Party, NA Deputy Edward Sharmazanov. According to him, there are many important points in the Meindorf treaty of which the most important is the peaceful settlement of the conflict and the other is the resolution of the conflict based on internationally accepted rights.

Sharmazanov is concerned about the unnecessary speculation of the Madrid principles and the “unsubstantiated” criticism against the authorities regarding the unilateral concessions. The Republican Party press speaker repeated Serzh Sargsyan’s words when he said that the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic can not be a part of independent Azerbaijan, that the republic must have a frontier with Armenia and guarantees for security. The rest, according to the speaker, are unnecessary speculations.

“A1+” proposed revealing the Madrid principles in order to avoid unnecessary speculations, to which Edward Sharmazanov replied that the negotiations are confidential and nobody has the right to reveal the details. He added that only Serzh Sargsyan and Edward Nalbandyan know about the details.

According to Sharmazanov, there are no contradictions between the Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic regarding the existing proposal for the conflict settlement. As far as Karabakh is concerned, as French co-president of the Minsk Group Bernard Fassie stated, it is has indirect participation because the co-presidents are meeting with the Karabakh side and clarifying their positions.

As far as the possible disagreements among RA authorities, Sharmazanov discussed the position of the ARF noting that politics is about seeing the reality. He informed that political parties will soon hold discussions and present their positions.

Head of the RA president’s administration Karen Karapetyan has taken the initiative of inviting political parties for a discussion on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Will Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Robert Kocharyan participate? In response to that, Sharmazanov said that they are not political leaders and it is possible that they will not be invited.

Edward Sharmazanov condemned the attack on head of the “Investigative Journalists” NGO Edik Baghdasaryan. He underlined the rule of law and that the guilty must be brought to justice. “A1+” asked him to bring up two examples when somebody was punished for attacking a journalist in Armenia. Obviously, Sharmazanov was not able to give examples and only recalled that he is a representative of the legislative body and is only expressing his opinion that the guilty must be punished in Armenia.