“The Minsk group was in a very poor condition. It was noticed that they had nothing to say. They also felt that and were trying to finish it fast, because they didn’t have answers to the questions”,- in the interview with Aravot.am referring to the press conference of the co-chairs of the Minsk group said political scientist, the founder of The Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs Stepan Safaryan.
“What we expected to listen was prevented just by our strategic partner Igor Popov. He said that they didn’t have a mandate to find out who started the war. Here questions arise: what Mr. Popov and the others were doing, when was held a special meeting of the OSCE Minsk group on the Karabakh issue, why didn’t they solve the problem of their mandate? Eventually, they knew that the both sides are accusing each other. First of all, Azerbaijan avoided the responsibility. Therefore they knew that the question “who started?” is going to be the main question in the region. Why we haven’t put that task? Why our Ministry of Foreign affairs hasn’t put that task? This is the most dangerous. Such failures against the background of the heroic struggle of the army and the people are a disgrace. MFA should be concerned and should have announced that the Minsk group wasn’t given a mandate”, mentioned Stepan Safaryan.
He put forward a question: from who is Armenia afraid of that didn’t raise the issue of the mandate of the Minsk group: “Because they are afraid of … because Russia is not interested. The other two co-chairs were in favor of the creation of the inquiry mandate still 3 years ago. And Papov bore the brunt of saying that they don’t have a mandate, that we could have nothing to say”.
Referring to Popov’s comment that NKR is considered the part of Azerbaijan, Stepan Safaryan said: “I will not say that he did a favor, but they have kept their promise to Azerbaijan. IE “we are not announcing that Kharabakh is not yours”. That legitimizes the actions of Azerbaijan. All those who now give alike “presents” to Azerbaijan, saying that the NKR is not Armenia, we are not recognizing, therefore Azerbaijan has a right to take it by force”, noticed Stepan Safaryan.
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