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Azerbaijan might put forth a new UN draft resolution, said head of the Armenian Cause Office of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-D, Dashnaktsutyun) Giro (Kiro) Manoyan at a press conference today, saying that he’s convinced that the current resolution wouldn’t have been withdrawn if it weren’t for intervention on the part of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.
He added that in any case, Azerbaijan’s resolution, up till now, is not on the UN agenda.
Speaking on the resolution proposed by the Armenian National Congress (HAK), Manoyan said that HAK, presenting that resolution as an alternative, is restricting the steps carried out by the government.
“When they were ruling [the country; referring to HAK leader, former president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan], even when they shut down our party, they imprisoned our friends, we cooperated with them, particularly after the Lisbon failure, and that became the result of their appeal. They made a proposal and cooperated, but we didn’t politicize that. But now that they’re attempting also to politicize that, on the contrary, I believe they’re limiting the government’s possibilities; the same proposal they could’ve sent to the government without publicizing it and the government could’ve responded favorably, but I don’t know what the government thinks,” said Manoyan.
In any case, the Dashnak politician didn’t want to express his true opinion regarding the HAK resolution, saying that “that resolution is not the issue today; rather, removing the resolution presented by Azerbaijan from the UN agenda should be everyone’s work.”