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US ANALYST: CHANGING THE MINSK GROUP FORMAT WOULD BE DESTRUCTION
APA
Dec 8 2011
Azerbaijan
Washington. Isabel Levine - APA. The US Helsinki Commission has
gathered on December 7 in Washington DC to discuss the progresses,
outcomes and fails of the frozen conflicts in the South Caucasus,
APA's US correspondent reports.
Prominent experts, some officials and Congress members, Diasporas'
members, lobbyists and media gathered at a briefing to discuss the
three existing conflicts, including the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Congressman Michael C. Burgess, who chaired the meeting, mentioned
that the conflicts in the Caucasus strike the region's development
potential and the people's lives.
"Unfortunate, it has been 20 years that the people were struggling
to find a peace, where the two principles of the Helsinki Act clash,"
he said.
Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, said although
there are different expressions of the Caucasus conflicts, such as
"frozen", "protracted" or "unresolved", these conflicts are have
always been actual. She believes that Russia is still a key country
for the resolution of the problems in the region.
During the briefing the participants were seeking an answer to a
question, why 20 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, there is
still no solution to those conflicts?
Tomas de Waal from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
reminded that all the three conflicts - Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia
and Abkhazia - started before the Soviet Union's days were over.
He believes that internal and geopolitical factors are making those
conflicts even more complex. According to the analyst, changing the
Minsk Group format would be destruction.
Wayne Merry from American Foreign Policy Council mentioned that despite
the long mediation the results of the peace process in Nagorno-Karabakh
have been disappointing. He called on Azerbaijan, Armenia and George
to not give up on peaceful initiatives in the region.
APA
Dec 8 2011
Azerbaijan
Washington. Isabel Levine - APA. The US Helsinki Commission has
gathered on December 7 in Washington DC to discuss the progresses,
outcomes and fails of the frozen conflicts in the South Caucasus,
APA's US correspondent reports.
Prominent experts, some officials and Congress members, Diasporas'
members, lobbyists and media gathered at a briefing to discuss the
three existing conflicts, including the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Congressman Michael C. Burgess, who chaired the meeting, mentioned
that the conflicts in the Caucasus strike the region's development
potential and the people's lives.
"Unfortunate, it has been 20 years that the people were struggling
to find a peace, where the two principles of the Helsinki Act clash,"
he said.
Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, said although
there are different expressions of the Caucasus conflicts, such as
"frozen", "protracted" or "unresolved", these conflicts are have
always been actual. She believes that Russia is still a key country
for the resolution of the problems in the region.
During the briefing the participants were seeking an answer to a
question, why 20 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, there is
still no solution to those conflicts?
Tomas de Waal from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
reminded that all the three conflicts - Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia
and Abkhazia - started before the Soviet Union's days were over.
He believes that internal and geopolitical factors are making those
conflicts even more complex. According to the analyst, changing the
Minsk Group format would be destruction.
Wayne Merry from American Foreign Policy Council mentioned that despite
the long mediation the results of the peace process in Nagorno-Karabakh
have been disappointing. He called on Azerbaijan, Armenia and George
to not give up on peaceful initiatives in the region.