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SOUTH CAUCASUS-EUROPE LINKAGE MOSTLY ARTIFICIAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.11.2008 13:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Each Caucasus state should feel secure, according
to a Russian expert.
"The South Caucasus-Europe linkage is mostly artificial, since the
European Union doesn't plan to accept Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
and its activities in the region seem to be ambiguous experiments,"
Andrey Areshev, expert at Strategic Initiative Foundation, wrote in a
piece of opinion titled "Stability in the Caucasus after five-day war:
the role of Russia, Iran and Turkey."
"Turkey's Caucasus stability and cooperation initiative stands
a good chance to be realized. However, it will not be sufficient
without Iran. The Iranian-Russian interaction is a stabilizing factor
which will help some European states pursue an independent from the
U.S. policy toward Tehran," he continued.
Georgia's accession to NATO and rehabilitation of the republic's
military infrastructure will hamper implementation of peace initiatives
in the Caucasus. Moreover, any initiative should be advanced taking
into account the existence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent
states. And the last but not least, there are attempts to attach an
anti-Russian coloring to the Turkish initiative and this will hardly
gladden Russia," Areshev concluded.
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.11.2008 13:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Each Caucasus state should feel secure, according
to a Russian expert.
"The South Caucasus-Europe linkage is mostly artificial, since the
European Union doesn't plan to accept Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
and its activities in the region seem to be ambiguous experiments,"
Andrey Areshev, expert at Strategic Initiative Foundation, wrote in a
piece of opinion titled "Stability in the Caucasus after five-day war:
the role of Russia, Iran and Turkey."
"Turkey's Caucasus stability and cooperation initiative stands
a good chance to be realized. However, it will not be sufficient
without Iran. The Iranian-Russian interaction is a stabilizing factor
which will help some European states pursue an independent from the
U.S. policy toward Tehran," he continued.
Georgia's accession to NATO and rehabilitation of the republic's
military infrastructure will hamper implementation of peace initiatives
in the Caucasus. Moreover, any initiative should be advanced taking
into account the existence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent
states. And the last but not least, there are attempts to attach an
anti-Russian coloring to the Turkish initiative and this will hardly
gladden Russia," Areshev concluded.