(Saturday, April 25)
“Golos Armenii” believes that the Turkish-Armenian statement was timed to coincide with the annual remembrance of Armenian genocide victims and describes the timing as “unnatural and offensive.” “Such things usually happen in countries whose national elites are fully controlled from abroad,” says the paper. “The modern history of Georgia or Iraq is a convincing confirmation of that fact.”
“Azg” draws parallels between Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial overtures to Turkey and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s ill-fated attempts in 1997-1998 to sell a compromise settlement with Azerbaijan to the domestic political elite and broader public. “None of Armenia’s political forces knows, at least at the level of their leaders, what that roadmap is all about, what problems it solves, what we are going to concede and gain and when,” writes the paper. It believes that Yerevan should have leaked details of the roadmap to the public.
Interviewed by “Aravot,” Armen Ashotian, a senior member of Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK), questions the credibility of Turkish newspaper reports purportedly disclosing the content of the roadmap. “This is not an official document,” says Ashotian. “I will consider official only what is published by our foreign ministry because experience shows that 80 percent of information published during such processes has nothing to do with reality.”
“Zhamanak” speculates that Russia is demanding more Armenian concessions on Karabakh in return for the disbursement of a $500 million loan to Armenia. “The presidents of Russia and Armenia just didn’t discuss any other serious issue,” speculates the opposition paper.
(Aghasi Yenokian)
“Golos Armenii” believes that the Turkish-Armenian statement was timed to coincide with the annual remembrance of Armenian genocide victims and describes the timing as “unnatural and offensive.” “Such things usually happen in countries whose national elites are fully controlled from abroad,” says the paper. “The modern history of Georgia or Iraq is a convincing confirmation of that fact.”
“Azg” draws parallels between Serzh Sarkisian’s controversial overtures to Turkey and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s ill-fated attempts in 1997-1998 to sell a compromise settlement with Azerbaijan to the domestic political elite and broader public. “None of Armenia’s political forces knows, at least at the level of their leaders, what that roadmap is all about, what problems it solves, what we are going to concede and gain and when,” writes the paper. It believes that Yerevan should have leaked details of the roadmap to the public.
Interviewed by “Aravot,” Armen Ashotian, a senior member of Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK), questions the credibility of Turkish newspaper reports purportedly disclosing the content of the roadmap. “This is not an official document,” says Ashotian. “I will consider official only what is published by our foreign ministry because experience shows that 80 percent of information published during such processes has nothing to do with reality.”
“Zhamanak” speculates that Russia is demanding more Armenian concessions on Karabakh in return for the disbursement of a $500 million loan to Armenia. “The presidents of Russia and Armenia just didn’t discuss any other serious issue,” speculates the opposition paper.
(Aghasi Yenokian)