“Even the most optimistic person’s positions of the well-known government until yesterday cause the expectation of a negative scenario. To say that the most negative scenarios took place, no… it can be conditioned by many circumstances,” Aram Vardevanyan, a member of the Armenia faction, said at a briefing with journalists in the National Assembly on April 7, referring to the Nikol Pashinyan-Ilham Aliyev meeting in Brussels under the under the auspices of the European Council President.
“One of the circumstances may be the political processes that took place in this short time inside Armenia and in Artsakh in the form of the NA response,” Aram Vardevanyan expressed. According to him, the statement summarizing the results of the mentioned meeting has “large-scale shortcomings.”
“The word Artsakh is not mentioned in it. Besides, how is it that this government speaks about the humanitarian catastrophe in Artsakh, but not a single word is mentioned in the statement of that four-hour discussion? There is no question that Azerbaijan’s policy is ethnic cleansing. There is not, because the RA government did not demand it, did not insist.” He stressed that the demarcation has been documented again, but the situation around Artsakh does not allow us to talk about that. “Are we going to demarcate and delimitate the border with a country that carries out ethnic cleansing in Artsakh and cuts off gas? It is carrying out armed operations in Artsakh. Doesn’t the government notice that we had casualties a few days ago? What delimitation and demarcation can take place in such conditions?” Aram Vardevanyan did not agree with the remark that the alternative to not negotiating would be war.
“The alternative to this disgraceful situation is not war. One should not pursue a policy of incomprehensible fear inside Armenia. There is no such thing. The fact that there is a possibility of war does not mean that you have to go and behave with all your might.” According to the MP, the government made a unique and true statement the previous day, emphasizing that the Artsakh issue should be discussed under the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing, but the statement of the Brussels meeting does not mention the OSCE.
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“These are questions that have no answers. I do not see anything positive, but I see anxiety. Who are we negotiating with? For what? How can we talk about a humanitarian catastrophe without including a word about it in the statement?” Hearing the journalist’s quote that according to the deputy of the Civil Contract faction Vladimir Vardanyan, the issues should be separated, and the parties talked about the RA-Azerbaijan relations, Aram Vardevanyan was surprised.
“That is? Why isn’t Armenia the guarantor of Artsakh’s security? It turns out from what Mr. Vardanyan said that the government washed its hands of Artsakh. There are armed operations in Artsakh, and no official from Armenia goes to Artsakh. What is the RA government doing in Artsakh or is it not doing anything? They are going to negotiate with Aliyev, aren’t they talking about Artsakh?”
Luiza Sukiasyan
