Politics

– What happened as a result of the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen? It seemed that the government should have responded to the revised Madrid version but no concrete statement was made in this regard. – At the beginning we witnessed a new attention in relation to Azerbaijan. This was an interesting theater …

– Recently the member of the political board of the Republic party Souren Sourenyants raised the issue that some of the liberated territories should be evidently yielded to Azerbaijan for the sake of the security and maintenance of Armenian values of Karabakh. Can we admit that this is your viewpoint as well? – In general, …

Interesting developments are taking place in the process of the Karabakh conflict resolution. On Sunday the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs arrived in Stepanakert, where they had meetings with the NKR leadership. This is a prominent visit by itself as usually when visiting the region the co-chairs visit Armenia and from there go to NKR. It …

A quite interesting and for the Armenian side dangerous situation is formed around the process of the NKR conflict resolution. After two years of constant negotiations around the NKR conflict, after so many meetings and consultations, after promulgating the principles acceptable it turns out that Armenia has disagreement with certain provisions of Madrid Principles. At …

“We’ll do our best to assist OSCE Minsk Group’s activities towards a peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict based on Madrid Principles. We offer the President of Armenia and Azerbaijan to meet in Astana during the current year. Strengthening co-operation with OSCE parliamentarians is an important component in tackling regional challenges such as protracted conflicts and …

– According to the report submitted by the chief rapporteur of the UN refugee issues 6226 Armenians found shelter in other countries in 2009. The number of Armenians applying for shelter in 44 countries increased by 43%. In your opinion what serves a result for this? – This is the expression of difficult social-economic situation …

“The authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic have numerously said that we don’t have occupied lands but have borders of the country, which are established in the Constitution. The standpoint of the Karabakhi people to this issue is much stricter,” said MP of the Karabakhi parliament, former members of the ARF Gegham Baghdasaryan in answer …

“First of all we are speaking of the self-determination right of the people of Karabakh. When this issue is resolved, the regulation of the other regional issues will be fast and easy,” said RA president Serzh Sargsyan in his interview given to Euronews last week, “It is clear that we, the Armenians, are more interested …

“We are first of all speaking about the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh for self-determination. If this issue is resolved the regulation of the rest of the issues of the region will be regulated quite fast and easily. It is evident that we Armenians are more interested in the resolution of the conflict but …

– Former foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan says “the negotiation quality of the Armenian party has changed because during negotiations one should be able to formulate alternative approaches.” Do you really think that the quality has changed? Do you think Azerbaijan is in a more favorable position now? – In relation to the quality I would …