Wasn't there anyone to prevent Kocharyan from making mistake?
The dialogue between the authorities and the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) reminds the Heritage Party of a serial.
"They are moving forward as in soap operas but politics should not be mixed with serials," Heritage MP Armen Martirosyan told A1+.
On July 9, the coalition parties formed a working group to start negotiations with the HAK. It is largely believed that the talks will start in the next ten days.
Commenting on the activity of the working group, the Heritage member said, "Nothing will change, the working group cannot solve the problems in the country. I will not be surprised to know that the serial ends in a happy ending: the group members will turn out to be kinsmen who have not met for many years."
Regarding the latest developments in the Karabakh peace talks, Martirosyan said, "The process that launched in Kazan is continuing today but I don't think that the sides are ready to sign an agreement on the key principle. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have told their societies different things; hence they cannot get closer to the conflict settlement."
Martirosyan says Karabakh should become a full-fledged party to the negotiation process otherwise the negotiations will be considered as illegitimate by the society.
He does not rule out that the conflicting sides might be subject to greater pressure after the Kazan meeting.
"In the given situation the maintenance of status quo is unfavorable for Armenia. We do not take real steps towards reaching a final solution in the Karabakh issue. Armenia should recognize the independence of Karabakh, resettle the liberated territories and have Karabakh engaged in the talks," said the Heritage MP.
"Karabakh's involvement in the talks is constituted in two documents. The first is the 1994 ceasefire agreement with the signature of Karabakh authorities and the second is the agreement reached in the Budapest summit in 1996 whereby Karabakh was recognized a full-fledged party to the negotiating process. We simply need to implement these decisions.
We stumbled in 1988 when Robert Kocharyan became president of the Republic of Armenia and began to represent Nagorno Karabakh in the talks. Perhaps there was nobody to tell him that it was a wrong step," said Martirosyan.
