RPA expresses concern and resentment over foreign policy pursued by  RA government on Artsakh issue

ArmInfo.The former Republican Party ruling in Armenia expresses concern and resentment over the foreign policy pursued by the Armenian government on the Artsakh  issue. This is stated in the statement of the RPA executive body  received in ArmInfo.

According to the source, the RPA expresses concern about the  information provided by the Russian Foreign Minister on the course of  the peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, and expresses outrage at the  foreign policy of the Armenian government on this issue. <This does  not meet our national interests and can have devastating consequences  for the Republic of Armenia and the Artsakh Republic, nullifying the  basic principles of negotiations with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs  until 2018, including with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs - Russia,  France and the United States .

Obviously, the RPA believes that in the batch version, unlike the  phased version, the basic principles and elements of the settlement  were fixed at the very beginning, and it was clear that each of the  parties would get the result. The danger of the phased version is  that on some At one stage, one of the parties may get some  advantages, so it becomes uncertain and full of dangers.

Naturally, the phased version cannot provide for the realization of  the right of the people of Artsakh to self- determination, which is  vital for the Armenian republics. This is very clearly seen from the  "draft phased settlement" published by Minister Lavrov during the  discussions on the current round of negotiations. If in the past they  regularly talked about a package solution with step-by-step  implementation, today in Moscow Sergey Lavrov made very clear and  unambiguous statements during a round table with representatives of  the Gorchakov club.

The authors of the statement believe that today the Armenian Foreign  Minister did not refute the statements of his Russian counterpart  about the new project submitted to the parties in April last year.   <Therefore, we strongly condemn many of the misleading and dishonest  statements of the current Armenian authorities about the lack of a  negotiation document. Because of the apocalyptic and populist  approach of this regime, which began negotiations with its own points  of view :, provisions of the right of the people of Artsakh to  self-determination were excluded from the agenda. We reiterate that  any settlement option that is not based on the principle of  guaranteed realization and recognition of the right of the people of  Artsakh to self-determination is unacceptable, like international  guarantees for the security of the people of the Artsakh Republic. We  firmly believe that the problem can be solved on the basis of  compromises, and these compromises cannot be listed without first  guaranteeing clear recognition and realization of the right of the  Republic of Artsakh to self-determination>, the statement reads.