Former NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs Arman Melikyan is certain that Serzh Sargsyan's call to Azerbaijan to sign an agreement on no application of force will not have any impact on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
"Azerbaijan has already rejected the proposal and there is no realpolitik there. The Armenian side is already being too friendly by expressing willingness to hand territories and receiving Azeri refugees. In other words, Armenia is in a losing position in foreign politics," Melikyan told "A1+".
He reminded that the idea of signing an agreement on no application of force had been stated several times by former Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Vladimir Kazimirov. "The repetition of this thesis by the Armenian authorities goes to show that Armenia doesn't have its own vision of the conflict settlement. This is the major issue."
According to Arman Melikyan, what Serzh Sargsyan is doing today is the continuation of the policies of Robert Kocharyan and Vardan Oskanyan. "Serzh Sargsyan didn't know what kind of situation he was going to be in and that's a different story."
He agrees with former RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan that the state of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was more extenuating in 1998 than it is now. "Whereas the foundation for change of power in 1998 was the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, now we have the issue of the inter-political crisis as well. Today we must be able to confront these two largest challenges. If we don't come to a consensus on a number of issues relating to domestic policy, we will be doomed to failure."
Touching upon the statements by representatives of international organizations according to which Nagorno-Karabakh was left out of the peace process thanks to Robert Kocharyan who found it appropriate to represent Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in the talks and what Serzh Sargsyan is doing today, Arman Melikyan said: "Of course, representatives of international organizations will use our errors to pursue their interests. I think Kocharyan's origin of Karabakh disturbed the process more because he started representing Nagorno-Karabakh in the negotiations. This process of an inertial character also engaged Serzh Sargsyan."
The former NKR Foreign Minister finds that Serzh Sargsyan further complicated the state of the Armenian side. "He further complicated the issue with his nonsensical Turkey-Armenia Protocols. If the logic of the talks doesn't change, the Armenian side will face inevitable handover of territories. The Armenian authorities are obliged to include all issues concerning Armenia in the talks, including the integration of half a million Azerbaijani Armenians and the Azerbaijani aggression in the international arena, etc."
Arman Melikyan agrees that the Turkish-Armenian relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have gotten so mixed up that it is hard to say the precondition of what is.
Melikyan doesn't exclude that the sides will soon be imposed to sign a document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but he is sure of that. "I am more than sure that when the moment comes, even this kind of government will find the strength inside and resign. I don't consider anyone a traitor in this country. They can be unintelligent, unprofessional, but not a traitor. We simply have to lay the necessary foundations for a new government starting today."
Source: The Armenian News by A1+
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