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    ARMENIA SHOULD GAIN CONTROL OVER NAGORNO KARABAKH, NATO PA HEAD CONSIDERS

    PanArmenian News
    Dec 21 2004

    21.12.2004 17:01

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Europeans, Americans and Russians have to jointly
    find a compromise, in compliance with which Armenia would gain
    temporary control over Karabakh, and further the Karabakh status would
    be determined via a referendum - within five of ten years," head of
    the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Pierre Lellouche and former Spanish
    Foreign Minister Ana Palacio write in Putin and the Phantoms of the
    Empire joint article in Le Figaro today's issue. In the article the
    relations between the EU and Russia against the background of the
    Ukrainian events. "The success of the democracy in Ukraine should
    underlie the common strategy of our democratic countries. This strategy
    aims at putting an end to the "frozen" conflicts at the threshold of
    Europe," the article authors consider. In the future the fate of the
    peoples, who live at the threshold of Russia and the EU, will depend
    on whether the "Russian neo-imperialism or the EU is able to establish
    "pax europa". To that end "the Western democracies" in the opinion of
    the authors should come out with initiatives to solve the conflicts in
    the post-Soviet space. "The frozen conflicts" in Georgian provinces -
    South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as in Pridnestrovie have much in
    common. "The conflict, in which Armenia and Azerbaijan collided in
    Nagorno Karabakh, is more difficult and has a different nature than the
    conflicts in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Pridnestrovie, Ana Palacio and
    Pierre Lellouche write. "As of Turkey, it has got the opportunity to
    show that the country wishes to enter the European family: for that
    the border with Armenia should be opened and it would facilitate
    the life in the republic, which has been blockaded for already 15
    years. Finally, in exchange for cooperation with Azerbaijan in the
    conflict, the West has to arrange close partnership ties with the
    country," the authors sum up. Both authors had visited Armenia and
    Nagorno Karabakh in late October this year as part of the delegation
    of the German Marshall US fund. They came for the participation of
    Nagorno Karabakh in the conflict settlement talks.
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