In a recent exclusive interview with RFE/RL Armenian service’s Sargis Harutyunyan,Co-Chairman of Armenian Assembly of America Anthony Barsamian spoke about United States-Armenian relations under President-elect Trump’s administration. During the interview, Harutyunyan asks Barsamian if the U.
S. will lose interest in the mediation process of the Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh/NKR) conflict because of a more loney foreign policy under a Trump administration, and to which Barsamian answers that he believes the opposite is valid. In his respond,Barsamian brings up the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) latest statement, which he calls “excellent.” Barsamian points to the part of the statement, and which he says brought up “the atrocities,as are related to April,” and that the Minsk Group has “basically near very heavily on the side of Armenia, and in terms of seeing that Azerbaijan were the aggressors and committed war crimes.” A statement calling for the ‘return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabagh to Azerbaijani control,’ is troubling. (Photo: ANCA) If Barsamian was referring to the Dec. 8 joint-statement by the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries reinstating their commitment “to a negotiated settlement of the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict,” then I beg to differ. “Excellent” is not the first adjective I [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com