YEREVAN. – We either will slam the door—which I don’t consider to be right; that would be a démarche—, or we will gradually work and see to it that Nagorno-Karabakh becomes a full party to the talks.

Vice President of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Eduard Sharmazanov, on Wednesday told the aforesaid to reporters at the NA. He stated this responding to the query on what will be the reaction of the Armenian side, if the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) does not join the peace talks to resolve the Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.

“It’s not the first time that the Armenian parties [to the conflict] have said that Karabakh should become a full-fledged party to talks,” stressed Sharmazanov. “Karabakh is certainly engaged in the negotiations today, but not as a full party.

“It’s no coincidence that the [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group] co-chairs have noted that Karabakh should become a party at the key final phase of the [peace] agreement; this problem can’t be solved without Karabakh. If the co-chairs are speaking about the ceasefire [agreement] in 1994 being open-ended, we need to say that, first of all, the NKR signed the ceasefire [agreement] in 1994.”