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KARABAKH MAY DISAGREE WITH RESULTS OF ANY NEGOTIATIONS BASING ON ITS NOT PARTICIPATING IN THEM Gagik Harutyunyan’s interview to REGNUM

Signing of Armenian-Azerbaijani-Russian declaration has come to prove about a new important milestone in Karabakh conflict regulation. It was announced by the director of “Noravank” Foundation Gagik Harutyunyan in his interview with an ИА REGNUM correspondent.

The expert mentioned the fact that for the first time after 1994 the document was signed not only by the Armenian and Azerbaijani parties but also, in the very case, by the Russian one. “After South Ossetian conflict the situation in the region has changed and Russia’s stocks are rising rapidly. It has come to be proved by the fact that Russia tries to become the guarantor of the contract which will possibly be signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” stressed up G.Harutyunyan.

“Today many people say that the version suggested by Russia is, as a matter of fact, not very advantageous for Armenia. It is also possible and in this sense it is often reminded the situation of 1920s, when Russia and Turkey divided Armenia between themselves. The analogy is not quite opportune. In comparison with those years Armenia now is an established state, and it is not that easy to divide it even if it is very much desired,” mentioned the expert.

G.Harutyunyan accentuated that it was not possible to ignore the interests of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in the conflict settlement process. In this connection he considered it quite noteworthy the military trainings in Nagorno-Karabakh just before the meeting in Moscow, where it was also considered the scenario of transferring military operations into the territory of Azerbaijan. To Harutyunyan’s estimation these trainings have come to prove that the issue can not be settled at will of only one of the parties.

The expert disagreed with the opinion of the Armenian opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan that by signing the declaration Armenian factually determined a new negotiating status and once and forever excluded the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from it. “We must proceed from the interests of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the Republic of Armenia, i.e. Armenia. Karabakh may any moment announce that it is not the participant of negotiations and doesn’t recognize their results. In fact, it is note a bad move in the reserve…Although at present Armenia is alone in the negotiation process; it goes without saying that Armenia’s President Serge Sargisyan, who is the head of Self-Defense Committee of Nagorno-Karabakh, also de-facto represents the interests of Karabakh,” summarized Harutyunyan.