SHUSHI IS THE 7TH OCCUPIED TERRITORY
Support A1+!”Karabakhi conflict issue has transformed into the one of Armenian-Azerbaijani bilateral relations, which is already considered as a territorial demand”, Babken Ararqtcyan, Chair of “Armat” /”Root”/ social organization and ex Parliament Speaker, said during the conference on the 10th anniversary of truce. He is sure the armistice arranged 10 years ago is uneasy so that it can be violated just because of that “transformation”.
”Since the time that NKR status turned into a territorial conflict we don’t master the truce. Azerbaijan owns it since it can say Azeri territories have been occupied”, Ararqtcyan says.
He drew the attention of journalists to the recent statements by Azerbaijani diplomats saying 7 occupied territories must be returned while 6 districts are under control of Armenian forces.
”They consider Shushi the 7th. Shushi was a separate district in Sovereign Territory of Nagorno Karabakh. Azerbaijan turned 6 into 7 within a year”, Mr. Ararqtcyan said. He called this policy line of Azerbaijan “document occupation”.
He assured no progress in the negotiations over Karabakhi conflict has been registered since the suggestions in 1997.
Yesterday Mr. Ararqtcyan read a publication in “New York Times”, under which peace is needed in our region or else it will be imposed: “In other words, we aren’t the ones to settle the conflict. And the worst is that we well may not to partake in solution”.
As to prospects of meetings between two presidents, Mr. Ararqtcyan said: “Just those meetings led to that Karabakh was left out of the negotiations. In 1994 Levon Ter-Petrosyan took Karabakhi President wherever he went. In 1994 September Kocharyan and Aliev even had a private talk”, Ararqtcyan reminded.
He is sure phase version is the only possible settlement to the conflict.
