Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan's July 20 behaviour has shown that it is time the international society make targeted statements and take a specific approach towards all the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sides, Armenian Parliament deputy Tevan Poghosyan has told ArmInfo journalist.
According to him, political powers and individual figures have long been demanding the international society to take a targeted approach. However, the authorities have not urged until now. Yesterday, Poghosyan says, the international society received a message, which read that bifrontal statements would not cause any progress but would even harm the process. Sargsyan's behaviour speaks for the fact that he has already discussed this issue with Tusk, who will probably raise it in Baku.
The politician believes the sooner European officials and co-chairs call the spade a spade the easier it will be to carry on the activities directed at the conflict settlement.
In the meantime, President Sargsyan urged Tusk and other high-ranking European officials not to equate the parties to the Karabakh conflict, because it encourages Azerbaijan to keep its militarist and aggressive statements. Sargsyan urged them to follow the OSCE Minsk Group's example and to specify who is to blame for the escalation. Sargsyan added that during his meeting with Tusk the latter stated that the EU fully supports the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' efforts towards peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. "This means that Azerbaijan's attempts to find a different solution to the conflict are doomed to failure," the President said. He stressed that despite Azerbaijan's attempts to distort the core of the conflict, the right of Artsakh's people to self-determination through a free expression of will is no longer questioned and this has also been fixed in the MG Co-Chairs' statements. "In this light, we are ready to move forward through reasonable concessions," he said.