At a round table discussion held today regarding Armenian-Turkish relations, Hrant Margaryan, a representative of the ARF Bureau, commented that Turkey had delievered a strong blow against the issue of the Armenian Genocide by making its two preconditions for talks indirectly part of the negotiations. Mr. Margaryan stated that both Armenian and Turkish media reports bore this out as well as the statements of President Obama. "One year ago Turkey didn't have the moral right to present an opinion regarding the Karabakh conflict while today it is seen as a possible party to the talks. Turkey has also made it clear that the setlement of the Karabakh conflict is a vital step in the normalization of Armenian-Turksih relations.Thus, Turkey has proven that it is an interested party in the Karabakh issue. At this juncture, the Armenian side must accept the fact that it has lost out," Mr. Margaryan commented. In his view, Armenia has lost out since it has conceded certain principles that the Armenian government had adopted since 1990. "If we had held fast to those principles today the Turkish side would be perceived as the guilty party," Mr. Margaryan noted. The ARF representative stressed the fact that a retreat of principles stems from a simplified and disjointed approach to national issues. "Our approach to national issues needs uniformity. and that uniformed approach must be based on a overriding perspective. We fall into a trap when we believe that we can concede nothing when it comes to the Karabakh issue but that we can give much elsewhere. This is what we need to understand - that the issues of Karabakh, the Genocide, Javakhk, the liberation of Western Armenia and Armenia's independence, are all intertwined and comprise a totality. They all must be tackled as parts of a whole, in which one cannot be sacrificed at the cost of another."