Talking to the journalists, head of Republican parliamentary group Galust Sahakyan in fact confirmed information of NEWS.am that parliamentary majority will not participate in voting on Karabakh’s independence bill or will abstain from voting.

There are different mechanisms for the document not to be approved. In fact, Sahakyan did not say that the parliamentary majority would vote against the bill. “It is great responsibility not to vote for draft bill on Karabakh’s independence but the parliamentary majority is ready to shoulder it,” he stressed. Therefore, under present circumstances the coalition decided not to vote for but it does not mean it will vote against. The point is bill should not be approved, either quorum should not be reached or no decision should be made at all.

Sahakyan also recalled that the Supreme Council of Armenia decided that Nagorno-Karabakh is inseparable part of Armenia but it by no means affected the solution to the problem. “Thus, decision on Karabakh’s recognition might yield no results as well,” Sahakyan noted. According to him, approval of the document would mean that Armenia changed the rules which will displease the OSCE Minsk Group. Enemies of Armenia and Karabakh can immediately take advantage of the situation. The MP considers that such bill can be approved in case of urgency when all methods to resolve Karabakh conflict are exhausted, when Azerbaijan declares war. Sahakyan is still hopeful they would manage to come to terms with the Heritage party and postpone the vote for two months. “In this case draft bill will be on the parliament’s agenda,” he stated.