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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, ARMENPRESS:
The conflicts in different parts of the world have some similarities and differences with the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Director of the Caucasus Institute, Political Scientist Alexander Iskandaryan said today during a round table on "Peaceful Coexistence after Military Conflict: the Case of the Philippines". Together with political scientists invited from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, he has been to Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor and Philippines with the funding of the European Union.
Speaking of the situation in the Philippines, Alexander Iskandaryan stated that it is a Christian country, where there is a widespread poverty, and simultaneously centers of bloody conflict. "There is a bloody conflict with the Muslims, concretely in Mindanao part of the country. Here 3 million Muslims live. Though today they already comprise a minority, the breath of the conflict exists, and it initiated centuries ago," Alexander Iskandaryan said, adding that this conflict cannot be compared with the Karabakh one, as it more resembles the Ossian one.
Political scientist Karen Bekaryan in his turn said that in the Philippines it was distinctly clear that it passes the first stages of statehood building. "It is interesting that the Philippine Christianity essentially differs from the American and European one," Karen Bekaryan stressed, adding that opinion is expressed only in positive sense.
Referring to the similarities of the conflict, Karen Bekaryan sated that part in the Philippines, which wants autonomy and independence, has no verge of comparison with the Karabakh conflict.