By Asbarez | Friday, 20 February 2015
Artsakh's presidential spokesman David Babayan
“Their guilt was proved during the trial and they confessed and addressed a petition for commutation to Artsakh President Bako Sahakian,” Babayan said. “Stepanakert has already displayed good will and a ‘humane gesture’ by avoiding reprisal against the raiders and launching an open and transparent trial like any civilized country would do.”
In this light, Babayan said, Nuland’s calls were, at the very least, strange given that she acknowledges the raiders as criminals. “It is interesting how Washington would respond if any organization asked it to free the Boston terrorists. Such category of criminals cannot be freed in such a ‘humane’ way, much less the criminals of a country that gives birth to various Safarovs, who axe-murder Armenian officers in their sleep,” Babayan said.
He believes that the issue of the Azeri terrorists is not Washington’s problem. “Simply, the United States rose to Baku’s bait. Baku tries to shift the responsibility for its actions on to Armenia,” Babayan said.
Babayan also reiterated that the Karabakh conflict negotiations process must include Karabakh itself as a party to talks in order to produce results.
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