“Azerbaijan leaves Armenia no other choice”
Chairman of the NA standing committee on international relations Armen Rustamyan reminds that the NA is obliged to make a declaration stating that Azerbaijan turned the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict into a bloody war.
This declaration has been on the NA agenda for the past two years and must be adopted during three sessions.
What serves as grounds for reminding the existence of this declaration is the current conference held by the RA Ministries of Defense and Education and Science during which experts are sounding the alarm that Azerbaijan is distorting history.
"We shouldn't just announce that Azerbaijan is distorting history. It is also leading the negotiations to failure," Mr. Rustamyan told "A1+". According to him, Azerbaijan has achieved success in terms of propaganda.
"Azerbaijan is making it seem like the Azerbaijani were the victims, not the Armenians. It presents Armenians as aggressors, as well as the ones who started the bloody war. This is a grave issue and we must raise it at the state level."
Armen Rustamyan finds that the security of the people of Karabakh is in danger now more than ever.
"Today we should truly affirm that since the 1994 ceasefire, the number of people who have died on the border due to Azerbaijan's provocations and the fires opened by marksmen is enough to call it a war."
According to Rustamyan, Armenia must coarsen its position.
"Armenia must sign a military-political alliance with Karabakh. Armenia must take that step since it is one exercising the Nagorno-Karabakh people's right to self-determination and the one guaranteeing the people's security. Azerbaijan leaves Armenia no other choice."
Why isn't Armenia taking that step? In response, Armen Rustamyan said Armenia likes to believe in the approach that the steps should favor the international community.
"It is good to be constructive, but Armenia is going over the limit, especially since the opponent is destructive. To this day, Azerbaijan hasn't accepted Karabakh and that says it all."
Armen Rustamyan says Armenia's flaw is the fact that Armenia keeps talking about having the NKR join the negotiations, but makes statements and adopts resolutions for Karabakh without having the right to do that.
