Are the authorities that bad?
Speaker of the Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov says the fact that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs have decided to visit the NKR during this regional visit serves as a basis for him to say that the Co-Chairs have realized that there cannot be any serious progress in the negotiations without the NKR authorities and the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to Eduard Sharmazanov, the Co-Chairs' visit to Stepanakert also goes to show that the NKR authorities are indirectly engaged in the negotiations process.
"Every meeting with the NKR authorities goes to show that the people of Karabakh are the ones who must determine their fate."
The OSCE Co-Chairs have announced that there must be an investigation into the murder of the Azeri child. Meanwhile, the Co-Chairs haven't given any strict evaluations of the murders of Armenian soldiers and citizens committed by the Azeri on the line of contact.
"Let's make it clear that the Armenian marksmen didn't kill the Azeri child. That is the product of Azerbaijan's false propaganda. If the Co-Chairs don't know this, they will come to realize that after their studies. In general, the Co-Chairs should give a very serious evaluation of Azerbaijan's false information. Azerbaijan says one thing at the table of negotiations and does the same things that the Azerbaijani no longer treat seriously," said Sharmazanov.
Eduard Sharmazanov also touched upon the debates between opposition parties and the criticism against each other. "It is very normal. The more we approach the elections, the hotter the struggle gets not only between the government and the opposition, but between the opposition parties since Armenia's opposition is multilayered. One side of the opposition is trying to link the other side with the authorities for discrediting."
Are the authorities that bad that links with any opposition party are discrediting? In response, Sharmazanov said: "No, the authorities are not that bad. The authorities are legitimate, but we should treat the opposition's debates calmly. It is a normal political process."
