Nalbandyan is Serzh Sargsyan’s screw
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Arzumanyan says that those who don't accept the Madrid Principles and demand the resignation of Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan are inconsistent and insincere.
"Nalbandyan is Serzh Sargsyan's screw," said Arzumanyan who went on to explain what he meant.
"Nalbandyan's resignation won't change anything. There is a machine composed of small screws. It doesn't matter if you change the screw or not-the machine will function the same way."
Arzumanyan believes that the resignation of the person leading the process will turn things around for the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Touching upon the news about the restart of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, as well as the announcement of the OSCE Minsk Group French Co-Chair according to whom a war will not start again, Arzumanyan said:
"If the international community does not agree with the solution based on consensus and can't force that, one of the ways of forcing is the restart of a war. Belligerent declarations signal the danger of a new war."
Arzumanyan thinks that comparing the Madrid Principles and the proposals that no longer exist is a waste of time. In any case, Arzumanyan touched upon Vardan Oskanyan's statement according to which he fought to be free from the "Lisbon Principles" for ten years, saying that the current authorities are using the expression "Lisbon Principles" from time to time to criticize Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his team with respect to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Arzumanyan considers the current Madrid Principles unacceptable for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and will do everything so that no document will be signed. He says that the document in question doesn't include even one sign of the self-determination of nations.
"In the principles it is stated that after the signing of the treaty, Nagorno-Karabakh will be granted an interim status ensuring the security of the people of Karabakh and self-governance. If Karabakh's interim status is going to be self-governance, that is absolutely unacceptable for Azerbaijan."
Arzumanyan excludes the resolution of the conflict without the participation of Karabakh.
