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Armenian political expert: Russia was going 'to cede' Nagorno-Karabakh

to Azerbaijan

 

2009-01-24 14:24:00

 

 

ArmInfo. Russian was going "to cede" Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan,

independent analyst Igor Muradyan told journalists, Saturday.

 

"The token money in our Russian 'friends'' intention was the Azeri gas,

as well as the speculation around possible construction of Nabucco gas

pipeline. This failed to happen thanks to a lucky

accident: President Serzh Sargsyan simply understood if he signed the

document he was offered, he would cease being the Armenian president",-

Muradyan said.

 

According to the expert, at the same time Moscow's American partners

disturbed Medvedev when the latter was going to impose the document on

Sargsyan. "We simply realized at a critical moment that there is not a

single pressure mechanism to make us cede Karabakh to Azerbaijan or

anybody else", the analyst said.

 

Muradyan thinks that the Russian president is practically surrounded by

gas and oil traders, as well as by Azeri lobbyists. However, in the

current situation it is not so easy to "sell" Karabakh to Azerbaijan,

and here a great role belongs to the position of the USA, which

reinforces its presence in the region together with the UK.

 

"This has flattened Turkey and Russia which are trying to find points

of coincidence at any price as they both realize that they are unable

to resist the USA separately. They failed to sell Karabakh, so nobody

is able to make us abandon our own territory",- Muradyan concluded.

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RUSSIA COULD NOT SELL OFF ARMENIA

 

 

 

Lragir.am

 

 

The settlement of the Karabakh conflict is imitation which is positive

because it prevents the war, stated the political scientist Igor

Muradyan January 24 at the De Facto press club. The Russians were

trying to settle the Karabakh conflict, selling off Armenia for the

sake of gas and oil interests but the United States stopped them in

time. Igor Muradyan says after the `great' victory in Georgia Russia

thought that it is the master in the Caucasus and the United States is

not capable anymore and decided to solve the problem of Karabakh, as if

that issue had occurred the day before and was easy to solve.

 

Igor Muradyan says the Armenian government expected the Russian

initiative which actually meant the sell-off of Armenia for the sake of

oil and gas to fade away but was mistaken. The initiative did not fade

away and even reached to three-party meeting in Moscow, Igor Muradyan

says, noting that the Armenian president fortunately understood that if

they sign in Moscow what the Russian offered them, he would stop being

president the very next day. According to Igor Muradyan, in Moscow not

the declaration was signed which the Russians wanted. The political

scientist knows approximately what document the Russians wanted but the

document which was signed was an American document which actually

prevented the Russian initiative, and was the continuation of the talks

mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group rather than a resolution.

 

As to the attitude of the society, noting that it prefers the problems

of welfare to thinking about challenges like almost all the other

societies, Igor Muradyan nevertheless said that there is a class in the

Armenian society which is not seen on TV and in the press but is there

and will act from the position of nationalism if necessity occurs. The

political scientist asks why the elite who have money, power, armed

force do not sign a document on the issue of Karabakh. He answers his

question that the reason is that the elite fear something, fear this

valuable and worried class of the society. According to Igor Muradyan,

in our society fear is the only constructive element.

 

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Armenian analyst: Moscow Declaration is American version of document earlier planned by Russia

 

2009-01-24

 

 

ArmInfo. The Moscow Declaration is American version of the document

earlier planned by Russia, says independent analyst Igor Muradyan.

 

It is not a secret that this declaration has changed nothing in the

format of the peace process. It has just formalized the USA's plans to

further imitate efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

By signing the declaration Russia has been involved in this imitation.

Imitation as such is a good process as it guarantees peace and puts off

war.

 

The only thing Muradyan is concerned about is that France will be soon

replaced by the EU as OSCE MG co-chair. "This is very bad for Armenia

as France and the EU are quite different things," says Muradyan.

 

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