“This is stripped politics”
Director of the ARF Bureau for the Armenian Cause and Political Affairs Kiro Manoyan has no expectations from the meeting in Astana. "There cannot be any progress. The main issue at hand is the status of the NKR and Azerbaijan's position on that remains unchanged."
According to Manoyan, to this point, the logic of the negotiations has been that no document can be signed even if the sides reach an agreement on one issue. Kiro Manoyan says the confidential documents related to the US and Turkish governments released on "Wikileaks" website serve as a basis for the possible signing of an agreement in Astana.
"According to Turkey, if the sides agree to a roadmap for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, that is enough for Armenia to ratify the Protocols. I don't exclude that the intermediaries will come to terms on presenting some roadmap in Astana to have Turkey ratify the Turkey-Armenia Protocols, but I am sure that Turkey will not ratify them until the upcoming parliamentary elections."
Manoyan says the release of the documents on "Wikileaks" will complicate Azerbaijan's relations with Iran and Turkey.
In general, Mr. Manoyan doesn't understand "Wikileaks"'s claims that it supports open politics. "This is not an open, but a stripped policy."
Mr. Manoyan is waiting for the release of new documents. "I don't exclude the release of documents in which Armenia's authorities have made pledges, but I think the pressures against the authorities will released."
Wants to see Serzh Sargsyan's documents
According to "Heritage" MP Armen Martirosyan, the most that can happen in Astana is the signing of a declaration. "In terms of content, I don't foresee any progress, especially since the presidents of the two co-chair countries Barack Obama and Nikolay Sarkozy will not be participating in the OSCE Summit."
Armen Martirosyan doesn't share the view that Serzh Sargsyan was forced to leave for Astana and that the visits of the Russian President's Chief of Staff and the EU Special Representative in the South Caucasus to Yerevan contributed to that.
Armen Martirosyan says the materials released on "Wikileaks" will also have an impact on the process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. "I am more interested in the documents that have yet to be released. Apparently, they are documents that ascertain today's policy. The document on Armenia that relates to Iran was released during the Kocharyan administration in 2003. I would like to get acquainted with the documents related to Serzh Sargsyan."
