March 18, the former Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan gave interviews to A1+ news web portal and Capital paper expressing his opinions about the situation over the Karabakh issue settlement.
He said that it is evident that completely other conditions are formed over the NKR issue settlement. Changes are evident on two levels – changes of situation and content. As a result of the Armenian and Turkish process, much is changed, which brought about changes of content. Turkey got involved in this process and this circumstance could not but be reflected in the negotiating document.
In his interview to A1+, Oskanyan noted that if in reality Azerbaijan said its "yes" and Armenia keeps silent, this means that this document is not in our favor and a serious change of NKR conflict situation is present. Vardan Oskanyan notices some danger in the NKR negotiation for Armenia determined by not only the Armenian and Turkish process and the quality of the negotiation, but also by the home situation in Armenia and the economic-political tension.
Oskanyan says during the last two years, we made steps back and so it may continue other 10 years. The second possible script is to survive with 1-2 percent of economic increase. The third scenario is the elimination of economic monopolies eliminating at the same time the political ones.
According to Vardan Oskanyan, there are two things to do to come out of the situation- concrete- indirect and conceptual – ideological.
"If the reality is the way I suppose, Armenia must refuse any document contradicting its interests. On the other hand, it has to present a constructive proposal", says Oskanyan attaching importance to the fact that the proposal has to be perceivable for the mediators and be in accord with our interests.
"We do not need to wait for the development of the process, but we need to take up sharp steps. We need change of stresses and stances which is to be grounded. Such a change happened in 1998 as a result of the change of government", Vardan Oskanyan tells Capital.
Source: Lragir.am - Armenian Online
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