For reaching international recognition of the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh first of all serious financial investments are necessary

YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: For reaching international recognition of the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh first of all serious financial investments are necessary, deputy head of the Russia’s geo-political affairs academy Ara Sargsyan said, informing that for reaching Kosovo’s independence the oligarchs of that country invested millions of dollars thanks to which different international diplomats and experts carried out extended propaganda work throughout the world. “Only Albanian oligarch Khashim Tacin paid well-known diplomat Machti Akhtisarii 250 million USD,” Ara Sargsyan said.

In his opinion the key to the settlement of the NK issue is in the hands of West. “If the USA wished the NK issue would have been settled long ago. The way of the settlement of the NK issue as well as the South Caucasus are under the control of the USA, France and Great Britain. Russia too has ways to settle the Karabakh issue but it does not do that waiting for returning its full influence on the South Caucasian countries which sooner or later will take place,” he said.

According to the analyst, Armenia must start active diplomatic work with Balkan countries – Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which is going to recognize Kosovo’s independence in the near future. “We must work with such countries who accept and consider the principle of self-determination a prior one,” Ara Sargsyan said.