{"id":45577,"date":"2010-09-15T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/15\/armenias-political-elite-became-rich-by-imports-from-nagorno-karabakh-opinion\/"},"modified":"2010-09-15T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:32:00","slug":"armenias-political-elite-became-rich-by-imports-from-nagorno-karabakh-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/15\/armenias-political-elite-became-rich-by-imports-from-nagorno-karabakh-opinion.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia’s Political Elite Became Rich by Imports from Nagorno-Karabakh: Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to lack of independence, it’s been a long time that Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh don’t have their own policy, said Karabakh Committee<\/a> member Ashot Manucharyan at a press conference today.<\/p>\n

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“Our policy is purely a response to proposals by others, whose aims and interests have nothing to do with the aims and motives of the people of Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and, to tell you the truth, Azerbaijan,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the Heritage Party’s suggestion to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence, Manucharyan said that that won’t strengthen Armenia’s position in the international arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Karabakh was truly independent until 1998. From ’98, the loss of Karabakh’s independence began,” he said. In his words, from this perspective, playing a huge role was Armenia’s political elite, who “became rich also by imports from Karabakh.”<\/p>\n

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He explained that in 1998, a number of countries had visited and brought a huge package with different proposals for Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership, because “everyone wanted to work with that Karabakh.”<\/p>\n

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“When I returned to Armenia, it turned out that that Karabakh, to which that’s addressed, is no longer,” he said, explaining that at that time, Nagorno-Karabakh’s president had become another country’s prime minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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