Vahagn Aleksanyan, the vice-Chairman of the “Civil Contract” party’s Board, referred to the speeches of the former Foreign Minister of Armenia, Vardan Oskanian, in the last few days, in which he proposes to make a breakthrough in the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations and change the negotiator. Vahagn Aleksanyan noted.
If Vardan Oskanian understood the value of the word in diplomacy:
- The sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, the region of Meghri, wouldn’t have been subject to bargaining.
- At the 1996 Lisbon summit, it would not have reached the point where the international community recorded that the right to self-determination for Nagorno-Karabakh means autonomy within Azerbaijan.
- In 1999, at the OSCE Istanbul summit, he would not have voted in favor of the Security Charter in Europe, which excluded the status of Nagorno-Karabakh outside Azerbaijan.
- He would not have left Nagorno-Karabakh out of the negotiation process.
- Azerbaijan would not have been granted the right of veto in determining the status of Nagorno-Karabakh (according to the Madrid principles).
- The independence referendum of Nagorno-Karabakh on December 10, 1991, would not have been politically nullified because the Azerbaijanis of Nagorno-Karabakh did not participate in it (according to the Madrid principles).
- The joint decision of the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR and the National Council of Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast on December 1, 1989, on the reunification of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh would not have been politically nullified (according to the Madrid principles).
- Without getting a result in the negotiations, he wouldn’t have called the seven regions occupied territory and thus would not have labeled Armenia as an occupier (on May 8, 2001, on the air of “A1+”).
