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    VLADIMIR KAZIMIROV: INCIDENTS AT CONTACT LINE GO ON AGGRAVATING
    TENSION AND DISTRUST BETWEEN KARABAKH CONFLICT PARTIES

    DeFacto Agency, Armenia
    July 25, 2006

    According to an agreement on strengthening cease-fire all the sides of
    the Nagorno Karabakh conflict have undertaken permanent obligations
    to quickly settle all incidents at the contact line, not to assume
    their escalation and aggravation of tension. OSCE Minsk Group former
    Russian Co-Chair Vladimir Kazimirov told PanARMENIAN.Net that the
    parties had not fulfilled their obligations for a long time.

    "Let's suppose that the implementation of the agreement has uncovered
    its shortcomings, it did not prove to be effective enough. However,
    in such a case, if there is political will and the lives of the
    servicemen and civilians living near the contact line is precious,
    the parties would inform the mediators of the fact, put forward
    proposals how to supplement the agreement, make it more useful.
    However, the matter was reduced to holding of monitorings, which
    are selective and cannot ensure either direct contacts between the
    parties or ubiquitous supervision of the state of affairs at the
    contact line. Meanwhile, the incidents that have already claimed
    thousands of lives go on aggravating tension and distrust between
    the parties," Kazimirov underscored. The Russian diplomat noted RA
    DM Serge Sargsyan had publicly stated the readiness to return to
    fulfillment of the obligations undertaken, if the Azeri party acted
    the same way. Nagorno Karabakh joined the position and repeated it
    in May 2006. "It is Baku that has kept silent for years. One wishes
    to believe that the Azeri President's utterances on the issue will
    prompt to constructiveness. It seems that Baku's negative approach was
    conditioned by the unwillingness to maintain direct contacts with the
    opposite parties' servicemen, moreover with Nagorno Karabakh a party
    to the agreement. Should one wrestle with the coordination of the
    "principles" and preparation of agreements between the parties, if
    they are the same way "accurate" in their implementation and display
    the same political "will"? Today the Co-Chairs insist on displaying the
    parties' political will", the Russian diplomat remarked. To note, the
    mediator's proposals on strengthening ceasefire in the Nagorno Karabakh
    conflict were sent by Vladimir Kazimirov to the RA and AR Presidents
    Levon Ter - Petrosyan and Heydar Aliyev, as well as Nagorno Karabakh
    Head Robert Kocharyan, on February 3, 1995. The parties' consent was
    received February 4, 1995 from all the conflict parties' DMs.
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