After all it's all the same for Armenia who provides assistance, key point is solution of Karabakh conflict

PanARMENIAN.Net - Geopolitical preferences within the Armenian elite lie in efforts to solve the "Karabakh problem" in favorable conditions for Armenia and all Armenians in the world, candidate of science, head of the department of international relations at the Institute of Political and Military Studies Sergey Markedonov stated in the interview to PanARMENIAN.Net The Russian analyst quoted RA ex-Prime Minister Vazgen Manoukyan. "Thinking over the "putsch of shaky hands" in August of 1991, Manoukyan stated that it's all the same for Armenia who will come to power in Moscow. The key point is to resolve the "Karabakh problem" in favorable conditions for Armenia and all Armenians in the world. Perhaps beginning from 1991 nobody has ever expressed the gist of geopolitical preferences of Armenia and its elite better than Vazgen Manoukyan has. After all it's all the same for Yerevan who provides assistance, the key point here is the solution of Karabakh conflict," Markedonov thinks. He said, here the very fact of assistance is important. "If the State Department does it, the Armenia elite becomes pro-American, if the Russian State Duma does it, pro-Russian sympathies of the Armenian elite are guaranteed. In 1992 the U.S. Congress adopted the famous 907 Amendment, which for a rather long period of time blocked American state assistance to Azerbaijan. In 1995 in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Russian parliamentarians adopted a tough resolution, which condemned the policy of the Ottoman Empire towards Armenians. In both cases Armenia expressed its support, first to American congressmen and then to Russian parliamentarians. The main thing here is that how Armenia's interests will be taken into account while working out the policy of superpowers," Markedonov underscored.

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