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ARMENIAN EXPERT: RUSSIA'S DISINTEREST IN EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT IS OBVIOUS
Today.Az
http://www.today.az/news/politic s/52467.html
May 21 2009
Azerbaijan
High expectations from the meeting of Presidents of Azerbaijan and
Armenia in St. Petersburg, will not prove justified, so the meeting
will not be decisive or a breakthrough, said head of the Analytical
Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (Armenia) Stepan
Grigoryan.
According to him, there are several reasons of the lack of grounds for
the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict. Among them, he sited
the lack of political will to compromises and unpopular decisions;
unwillingness to accept compromise solutions; low level of mutual
trust and the virtual absence of dialogue at the level of civil
society institutions is also not conducive to the rapid resolution
of the conflict (separate meetings of public officials in Armenia
and Azerbaijan outside the region, somewhere in Nepal or Key West, do
not count) and: the obvious difference in the positions of the United
States and Russia on the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict.
As for the latter, he said:
"The United States and EU are doing everything for the rapid resolution
of the conflict and the transformation of the South Caucasus region of
cooperation and peace, disinterest of Russia in the early settlement
of the conflict is obvious and can be explained by the fear of losing
all the levers of influence on Armenia and Azerbaijan".
The expert noted that there are other reasons for the absence today
of any serious grounds for mutually acceptable and voluntary solution
to the Karabakh conflict.
"However, it is necessary today to welcome the readiness of the
parties to work hard to find a solution to the conflict. In addition,
the parties need to move from discussions of basic principles to
the conflict to the drafting of a future peace treaty", concluded
the expert.
Today.Az
http://www.today.az/news/politic s/52467.html
May 21 2009
Azerbaijan
High expectations from the meeting of Presidents of Azerbaijan and
Armenia in St. Petersburg, will not prove justified, so the meeting
will not be decisive or a breakthrough, said head of the Analytical
Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (Armenia) Stepan
Grigoryan.
According to him, there are several reasons of the lack of grounds for
the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict. Among them, he sited
the lack of political will to compromises and unpopular decisions;
unwillingness to accept compromise solutions; low level of mutual
trust and the virtual absence of dialogue at the level of civil
society institutions is also not conducive to the rapid resolution
of the conflict (separate meetings of public officials in Armenia
and Azerbaijan outside the region, somewhere in Nepal or Key West, do
not count) and: the obvious difference in the positions of the United
States and Russia on the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict.
As for the latter, he said:
"The United States and EU are doing everything for the rapid resolution
of the conflict and the transformation of the South Caucasus region of
cooperation and peace, disinterest of Russia in the early settlement
of the conflict is obvious and can be explained by the fear of losing
all the levers of influence on Armenia and Azerbaijan".
The expert noted that there are other reasons for the absence today
of any serious grounds for mutually acceptable and voluntary solution
to the Karabakh conflict.
"However, it is necessary today to welcome the readiness of the
parties to work hard to find a solution to the conflict. In addition,
the parties need to move from discussions of basic principles to
the conflict to the drafting of a future peace treaty", concluded
the expert.