News reports preceding meeting in Astana is agitation. Rumors about possible signing of a “road map” on Karabakh spread by the media are also Azerbaijan’s propaganda, Giro Manoyan, head of the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office, ARF Dashnaktsutyun told a press conference on November 19. He also noted that Baku’s goal is to pressurize Armenia be means of propaganda.

Manoyan stressed there are no serious grounds to expect progress in the Karabakh peace process at the forthcoming OSCE Summit.

“Azerbaijan still does not want to hear of Karabakh’s status. It will be possible to speak of progress only on the day when Baku declares that it accepts Karabakh’s status. Therefore, the same statements, made at previous meetings, will be voiced at the OSCE summit,” Manoyan stated.

As to the Madrid Principles, Manoyan said that three principles are acceptable to ARFD: nations’ right to self-determination, territorial integrity and non-use of force. “If the borders of Karabakh offered today had been suggested in 1988, it would have been completely different thing. Today’s NKR is not an Autonomous Region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the mediators should realize that Azerbaijan lost the war unleashed by itself, whereas Armenian side is not at all obliged to compensate anything,” he concluded.