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WPS Agency, Russia
July 8, 2011 Friday
NEW IDEAS ON KARABAKH
by Sokhbet Mamedov
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 139, July 8, 2011, p. 6
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV IS ON A BRIEF VISIT TO
AZERBAIJAN; Attempts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
continue.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is making a brief visit to
Baku, Azerbaijan. Lavrov will meet with the Azerbaijani leaders to
discuss Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. Mubariz Akhmedoglu of
the Political Innovations and Techniques Center reckoned, however,
that Lavrov was really coming to arrange another meeting of the
presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Practically nothing is known about Lavrov's meetings in Baku today or
about his talks with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandjan in
Moscow last night. It is only known that Lavrov objects to the idea to
replace the OSCE Minsk Group with some other structure. Some experts
suspect that Moscow came up with new ideas and suggestions to Baku and
Yerevan. They say as well that OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen never made
a pause after the presidential meeting in Kazan on June 24 the way
they always had done before but chose to intensify the process of
negotiations instead.
EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Catherine Ashton confirmed that the European Union supported Russia as
a go-between and its President Dmitry Medvedev in their efforts to
find a solution to the Karabakh problem.
"The relations between the two countries are complicated. OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen keep me and the European general public updated on
what they do and what difficulties they encounter. Difficulties or
not, the involved parties ought to double efforts to make progress and
reach an agreement by the end of the year," said Ashton. Her words
became an indication that OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen were through
with endless delays practiced by Baku and Yerevan in acceptance of the
Madrid Principles.
July 8, 2011 Friday
NEW IDEAS ON KARABAKH
by Sokhbet Mamedov
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 139, July 8, 2011, p. 6
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV IS ON A BRIEF VISIT TO
AZERBAIJAN; Attempts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
continue.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is making a brief visit to
Baku, Azerbaijan. Lavrov will meet with the Azerbaijani leaders to
discuss Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. Mubariz Akhmedoglu of
the Political Innovations and Techniques Center reckoned, however,
that Lavrov was really coming to arrange another meeting of the
presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Practically nothing is known about Lavrov's meetings in Baku today or
about his talks with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandjan in
Moscow last night. It is only known that Lavrov objects to the idea to
replace the OSCE Minsk Group with some other structure. Some experts
suspect that Moscow came up with new ideas and suggestions to Baku and
Yerevan. They say as well that OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen never made
a pause after the presidential meeting in Kazan on June 24 the way
they always had done before but chose to intensify the process of
negotiations instead.
EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Catherine Ashton confirmed that the European Union supported Russia as
a go-between and its President Dmitry Medvedev in their efforts to
find a solution to the Karabakh problem.
"The relations between the two countries are complicated. OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen keep me and the European general public updated on
what they do and what difficulties they encounter. Difficulties or
not, the involved parties ought to double efforts to make progress and
reach an agreement by the end of the year," said Ashton. Her words
became an indication that OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen were through
with endless delays practiced by Baku and Yerevan in acceptance of the
Madrid Principles.