UAR: way of Karabakh resolution correct

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Nagorno Karabakh conflict is really a protracted one but the way of settlement has been accurately selected, said Georgy Ter-Ghazaryants, the First Vice President of Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR).



According to him, the Presidents of the two countries began the way of resolving this conflict through talks, Heydar Aliyev, the ex-President of Azerbaijan, took the first steps and began the process of talks, which lasted and got transferred to Ilham Aliyev.



Ter-Ghazaryants said that 2007 was a useful year from the point of view of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. The Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia held six meetings. He said that during the meeting with the delegation of the UAR in Yerevan, the President of Armenia, Robert Kocharian, expressed satisfaction with the final meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart, and stated that both sides reached an agreement to make no comments about the results.



The First Vice President considers that the confidentiality will be useful for the people of both the sides, any information leakage may be wrongly accepted and expected that the early information may yield negative results. "After the Presidents reach an agreement, a great deal of work should be carried out to inform the publics, so that they also accept the decisions taken. These decisions will affect the territorial nuances. Of course, there are territories that are not in need of impingement. They have never been the territories of Armenia. However, there are certain issues on which they have themselves reached at an agreement and yet these have not been publicized," he said.



According to him, even European experts confirm that the recent meetings of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia inspire the signs of settling the issue. Ter-Gazaryants stressed that in the recent period; the several actions have been carried out, which are considered accurate. According to him, the public should be prepared to live their usual life. He recollected the visit of Azeri and Armenian intellectuals to Stepanakert, Yerevan and Baku, and important meetings with the Presidents. The efforts of the popular diplomacy are in demand because the issue will not be resolved without the public opinion, Ter-Ghazaryants stated, Trend reports.