"We are on the brink of a downfall"
"Constructing domestic and foreign policy based on lies will lead to a downfall, a disaster at the state and national level sooner or later," head of NA "Heritage" faction Stepan Safaryan told "A1+". According to him, Armenia will be on the brink of a downfall due to its short-sighted policies.
The reason for the deputy's pessimism is the news that the Azeri side has accepted the updated Madrid Principles and is waiting for Armenia.
"Unfortunately, Armenia was venturous, thinking that Azerbaijan will once again say "no" and, as the authorities say for Turkish-Armenian relations and other cases, the international community and the Minsk Group Co-Chairs would view Armenia as the "good guy". The Armenian authorities were mistaken once again and have placed themselves, Armenia and Artsakh in jeopardy and the name of that is the Madrid Principles," said Safaryan.
According to him, one has to be at least naïve to not understand that Azerbaijan, which gathers different international documents on territorial integrity, may suddenly agree to bring forth the proposition on self-determination in the Madrid Principles.
Safaryan is not sure whether the Armenian authorities will have political will to reject and may even ignore the international community's response to that rejection.
Stepan Safaryan believes that Azerbaijan is overtly sure that organizing and holding a referendum will be in its favor.
"With that said, seeing how Armenia's president is afraid of Azerbaijan's bellicose announcements, proposing to sign an agreement on no application of force on television, how Serzh Sargsyan talks about the return of liberated territories in an interview with "Al Vatan" newspaper, the Azeri are sure that they will reach their goal," said Safaryan.
According to Safaryan, the only correct solution is recognition of Artsakh's independence.
In an interview with "A1+", press correspondent of the HHK (Republican Party of Armenia), Republican faction deputy Edward Sharmazanov stressed that there are no updated Madrid Principles and they are only proposals on which the sides express their positions.
According to Sharmazanov, Azerbaijan is in a political labyrinth. He recalled that unlike the Lisbon document, the status of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was prescribed in an international document for the first time. Sharmazanov also recalled Edward Nalbandyan's announcement about the return of Getashen and Shahumyan and then talks about mutual concessions and assured that there would not be one-sided concessions.
