Armenian political scientist: "Armenia is losing to Azerbaijan"

"Today Nagorno Karabakh problem is reaching the deadlock as the process is developing in the political dimension, in which we are losing to Azerbaijan and Turkey, while in the legal field, the process will base of legal norms, despite political factor is strong", said Papyan (Armenian ambassador to Canada in 2001-2006) during a round table "Principle of Armenia's complementarity in the context of new political conditions".

According to the former ambassador, the main legal document forming a basis for Armenia's position is the decision of the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1920, according to which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia were to coordinate issues of borders between each others. Otherwise, the said issue was to be settled by the Council of League of Nations, basing on the national composition of the residents of definite areas.

According to the expert, the UN Security Council, as an assignee of the Council of the League of Nations, should undertake this issue, at the same time considering democraphic data of 1920, but not modern ones, which were subjected to changes in the result of "illegal actions of Azerbaijan in driving aboriginal Armenian population out of Nagorno Karabakh".

"We should appeal to the court instances on the fact that the Security Council member-states do not fulfill their resolutions. I have spoken of this need and I do not understand why this issue is not raised by the government. Anyway, we have wider opportunities in the legal field than in the political one", said Papyan.

/Novosti-Armenia/