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    ANALYSIS: KAZAKHSTAN'S INTEREST IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT SHOULD BE VIEWED WITH CAUTION
    Aris Ghazinyan

    ArmeniaNow reporter
    30.04.10 | 15:54

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    Kazakhstan's leader Nursultan Nazarbayev has recently expressed a
    revived interest in the settlement of the Karabakh issue.

    In Soviet times Nazarbayev, together with his counterpart, leader of
    Russia Boris Yeltsin, made some efforts in that direction. In 1991
    in the Russian city of Zheleznovodsk, on the initiative of the two
    presidents, negotiations were held with participation of delegations
    from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, and, as a result,
    a joint communique was signed. Yeltsin's and Nazarbayev's mediating
    initiative did not help to improve the situation in Nagorno Karabakh.

    The Soviet Union had collapsed, and the key players focused on division
    of property.

    And now, two decades later, Nazarbayev is again interested in Nagorno
    Karabakh.

    Currently the chairman of OSCE is Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan
    Kanat Saudabayev, who has recently made calls to foreign ministries of
    Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss the possibilities of Nazarbayev's
    participation in the negotiation process as president-co-chair of
    Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe.

    As reported by Novosti Armenia news.am newspaper, Armenia might agree
    to Kazakhstan's suggestion, "however, Yerevan will agree to a meeting
    with Nazarbayev's mediation only if NKR president Bako Sahakyan is
    allowed to be present as a full-rights participant."

    The following factors are worth mentioning in this connection:

    Last year in October the Ninth Summit of the leaders of Turkic states
    was held in Nachijevan with participation of top brass representatives
    of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkic-language-speaking countries of
    Central Asia.

    Nazarbayev stated at the summit: "In order to achieve Ataturk's
    dream-unity of the Turkic brother-states, we have to improve
    cooperation on a political level and raise it to a height which
    would meet modern demands. That is why I, on behalf of Kazakhstan,
    am submitting a proposal on creating a Council of Turkic States which
    would possess all qualities of a regional political unity, a legal
    status and certain organizational structures, or, in other words,
    a Turkic Council".

    But the concept of "Turkic ideology" has long been viewed as
    politically-motivated, and racist. The Genocide of Armenians was
    a consequence of Pan-Turkic ideology aimed at unification of all
    Turkic nations. Armenians, as a Christian nation, were standing in
    their way of unification.

    Nazarbayev cites Mustafa Ataturk who in late 1920 became the
    inspiration for Turkish war against Armenians and their massacre. "To
    start a 'favorable war' (under a convenient pretext) in order to
    unite Azerbaijan with Turkey," Ataturk wrote back then. .

    Nazarbayev's proposal was accepted. Today the Turkic Council is already
    functioning. All things considered, Nazarbayev's renewed interest in
    Karabakh is an alerting development.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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