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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DISAPPOINTED WITH THE RESULTS OF THE KAZAN SUMMIT ON NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
ITAR-TASS
June 27 2011
Russia
MOSCOW, June 27 (Itar-Tass) - Despite expectations the meeting
between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents Ilkham Aliyev and Serzh
Sargsyan with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev~Rs mediation ended with
no signatures put under the fundamental principles for the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement.
However, the talks can further take place without Medvedev~Rs
participation, the Kommersant business daily wrote. The Russian
president was so much disappointed with the results of the Kazan
summit that he expressed his readiness to stop his mediatory mission.
He plans to organize the next meeting between Aliyev and Sargsyan only
under the condition that the two countries~R leaders will finally sign
the document on the principles for the Karabakh conflict settlement.
The summit of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Kazan under
the patronage of Dmitry Medvedev brought about no results for which all
organizers of this high-level meeting hoped. The fundamental principles
for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement that the OSCE Minsk
Group (Russia, the U.S., France) has been actively preparing since
the beginning of the year should have become a roadmap for settling
one of the most long-simmering conflicts on the post-Soviet space.
On the eve of the summit mediators exerted a strong pressure on
Baku and Yerevan to make them sign a time- and effort-consuming
document, Kommersant reported. However, the roadmap was not signed
in Kazan. After more than an hour-long meeting the negotiators made
a short statement. In fact, they announced that they ~Sreached mutual
understanding on a range of issues which resolution contributes to the
creation of conditions for approving the fundamental principles.~T
The daily quoted a source close to the negotiations as saying that
this wording means that the sides simply ~Sonce again fixed the issues
that remain in dispute.~T
Although Baku and Yerevan express readiness to continue the talks,
the future of the dialogue remains questionable after the failure of
the Kazan summit. According to a diplomatic source engaged in the
negotiating process the Kazan summit disclosed discrepancies that
mediators considered resolved long time ago.
The Kazan summit~Rs failure may have direct consequences for the
peacemaking initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, who had been actively
engaged in the process of reconciliation between Azerbaijan and Armenia
since autumn 2009 and already organized nine tripartite meetings on the
Russian territory. According to a high-ranking official in the Kremlin,
the Russian president was so much disappointed with the summit that
he was ready to abandon his mediation efforts on the Karabakh track.
After the summit Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers Eduard
Nalbandyan and Elmar Mamedyarov made contrast statements resting
responsibility for the talks~R failure on the opposite site, the
Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily wrote. Nalbandyan announced that Azerbaijan
was not ready to recognize the mediators-initiated last variant
of the fundamental principles for the Karabakh conflict settlement
proposing too many amendments. In response Mamedyarov advised his
Armenian counterpart ~Snot to engage in the PR campaign, but to
work intensively to change the negative status quo what leaders of
member-countries of the OSCE Minsk Group call for.~T
All this looks like that it was important for Baku and Yerevan not to
make a breakthrough in Kazan, but to create the platform for accusing
partners of non-constructiveness as before, the daily wrote.
ITAR-TASS
June 27 2011
Russia
MOSCOW, June 27 (Itar-Tass) - Despite expectations the meeting
between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents Ilkham Aliyev and Serzh
Sargsyan with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev~Rs mediation ended with
no signatures put under the fundamental principles for the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement.
However, the talks can further take place without Medvedev~Rs
participation, the Kommersant business daily wrote. The Russian
president was so much disappointed with the results of the Kazan
summit that he expressed his readiness to stop his mediatory mission.
He plans to organize the next meeting between Aliyev and Sargsyan only
under the condition that the two countries~R leaders will finally sign
the document on the principles for the Karabakh conflict settlement.
The summit of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Kazan under
the patronage of Dmitry Medvedev brought about no results for which all
organizers of this high-level meeting hoped. The fundamental principles
for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement that the OSCE Minsk
Group (Russia, the U.S., France) has been actively preparing since
the beginning of the year should have become a roadmap for settling
one of the most long-simmering conflicts on the post-Soviet space.
On the eve of the summit mediators exerted a strong pressure on
Baku and Yerevan to make them sign a time- and effort-consuming
document, Kommersant reported. However, the roadmap was not signed
in Kazan. After more than an hour-long meeting the negotiators made
a short statement. In fact, they announced that they ~Sreached mutual
understanding on a range of issues which resolution contributes to the
creation of conditions for approving the fundamental principles.~T
The daily quoted a source close to the negotiations as saying that
this wording means that the sides simply ~Sonce again fixed the issues
that remain in dispute.~T
Although Baku and Yerevan express readiness to continue the talks,
the future of the dialogue remains questionable after the failure of
the Kazan summit. According to a diplomatic source engaged in the
negotiating process the Kazan summit disclosed discrepancies that
mediators considered resolved long time ago.
The Kazan summit~Rs failure may have direct consequences for the
peacemaking initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, who had been actively
engaged in the process of reconciliation between Azerbaijan and Armenia
since autumn 2009 and already organized nine tripartite meetings on the
Russian territory. According to a high-ranking official in the Kremlin,
the Russian president was so much disappointed with the summit that
he was ready to abandon his mediation efforts on the Karabakh track.
After the summit Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers Eduard
Nalbandyan and Elmar Mamedyarov made contrast statements resting
responsibility for the talks~R failure on the opposite site, the
Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily wrote. Nalbandyan announced that Azerbaijan
was not ready to recognize the mediators-initiated last variant
of the fundamental principles for the Karabakh conflict settlement
proposing too many amendments. In response Mamedyarov advised his
Armenian counterpart ~Snot to engage in the PR campaign, but to
work intensively to change the negative status quo what leaders of
member-countries of the OSCE Minsk Group call for.~T
All this looks like that it was important for Baku and Yerevan not to
make a breakthrough in Kazan, but to create the platform for accusing
partners of non-constructiveness as before, the daily wrote.