“There will be retribution on the battlefield”
The "yola" (getting by) policy will signify the end, said participants of the roundtable discussion on "The Karabakh Conflict in Armenia and the International Arena" at the Armenian Center for National and International Studies today.
The participants of the discussion say the effects of the authorities' "getting by" policy are more clearly seen in the process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. Head of the center, political scientist Manvel Sargsyan says it is even a shame when Armenians discuss whether the NKR is going toward international recognition or unification with Armenia.
"I don't know how serious the political figures are treating that process, but things are so uncertain that they have started distorting the image. We are currently trying to understand why the society is afraid of even discussing the issue. There is only one thesis for us and that is to be silent; otherwise, we will be massacred again," Manvel Sargsyan told "A1+".
Political scientist Alexander Kananyan says if the Armenian authorities were vigilant, we would have known where the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was going. "Unfortunately, the current authorities are solving issues that sometimes have nothing to do with national interests."
Kananyan says there is no sense in expecting a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since no government, current or future, will dare to change the status on the border or make territorial concessions.
"The regime that makes concessions won't stay in power for over 10 hours. Their punishment will be retribution on the battlefield," said Kananyan.
The political scientist says even a small concession will lead to the outbreak of a war. "Azerbaijan is not ready for concessions and doesn't even want to acknowledge the Armenians' existence. If Armenia loses Artsaj, it will lose a large part of Syunik as well. That is very easy to calculate. Residents of Kapan will leave if the region of Kutablu is handed over to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani snipers are able to shoot at a Syunik governor at a distance of 500 meters."
The political scientist hopes that things won't reach that point and Armenia will be able to reinforce its positions.
Touching upon the version of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through mutual concessions, expert Harutyun Mesropyan mentioned that he didn't understand the term "mutual concession" and suggested that Armenia's oligarchs normalize their budget with the mutual concessions version.
"They have secured their belongings by not paying taxes. Let them pay 50 percent of their belongings as a mutual concession. Instead of that, they are conceding lands."
