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OSCE MINSK GROUP VISITS BAKU
Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 30 2011
Russia
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met the co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group - Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA) and Bernard
Fassier (France), with his replacement Jacques Faure. The special
representative of the OSCE chairman Andrezej Kasprzyk was also at
the meeting.
The sides discussed the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
and its prospects.
The co-chairs monitored the Armenian-Azerbaijani border at the
village of Jafarli in the Gazakhsky District and met Ayaz Askerov,
head of the local executive authorities.
Fassier made note of the fact that it is the middle of their visit.
They met the president and ministers of foreign affairs and defense
of Armenia. Tension is lower on the border than on the contact line
of forces. A meeting with the president, foreign and defense ministers
will be held in Baku, APA reports.
Fikret Sadykhov, an Azerbaijani political analyst and professor of
the Western University, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the situation is
a stalemate which may enter a hostile stage. It was caused by lack
of new proposals. Foreign officials visit the area but want the
conflicting sides to resolve the problem.
Another problem is that Armenia and Azerbaijan have different
conditions, the expert goes on. The occupied territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh has separatism, which is why the UN Security Council
and PACE passed resolutions and the member-states of the OSCE MG make
declarations. This is, in fact, a flouting of international law. New
ideas for a solution are needed. There are still hopes for the Minsk
Group to resolve the conflict, but such hopes die out more every day.
Sadykhov says that he does not know a single state interested in the
conflict. Regional and European states and Russia would not want an
unstable region. But so far they show indifference. Armenia refuses
to fulfil the resolutions of the UN and heads of the OSCE MG member
states. The expert pointed out the ease of intervention in the
Middle East.
Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 30 2011
Russia
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met the co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group - Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA) and Bernard
Fassier (France), with his replacement Jacques Faure. The special
representative of the OSCE chairman Andrezej Kasprzyk was also at
the meeting.
The sides discussed the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
and its prospects.
The co-chairs monitored the Armenian-Azerbaijani border at the
village of Jafarli in the Gazakhsky District and met Ayaz Askerov,
head of the local executive authorities.
Fassier made note of the fact that it is the middle of their visit.
They met the president and ministers of foreign affairs and defense
of Armenia. Tension is lower on the border than on the contact line
of forces. A meeting with the president, foreign and defense ministers
will be held in Baku, APA reports.
Fikret Sadykhov, an Azerbaijani political analyst and professor of
the Western University, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the situation is
a stalemate which may enter a hostile stage. It was caused by lack
of new proposals. Foreign officials visit the area but want the
conflicting sides to resolve the problem.
Another problem is that Armenia and Azerbaijan have different
conditions, the expert goes on. The occupied territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh has separatism, which is why the UN Security Council
and PACE passed resolutions and the member-states of the OSCE MG make
declarations. This is, in fact, a flouting of international law. New
ideas for a solution are needed. There are still hopes for the Minsk
Group to resolve the conflict, but such hopes die out more every day.
Sadykhov says that he does not know a single state interested in the
conflict. Regional and European states and Russia would not want an
unstable region. But so far they show indifference. Armenia refuses
to fulfil the resolutions of the UN and heads of the OSCE MG member
states. The expert pointed out the ease of intervention in the
Middle East.