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NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT STILL FROZEN
Vatican Radio
Feb 16 2012
Azerbaijan today called on the European Union to help find a solution
to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The predominantly ethnic-Armenian
territory was occupied by Armenia as the Soviet Union crumbled in
the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Less than a month ago, both Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents
expressed their readiness to speed up the process of reaching
agreement on the disputed territory during a meeting hosed by the
Russian president.
"The two have basically agreed at various times what the basic outline
of the resolution of the conflict would be," said Lawrence Sheets,
an analyst and expert on the Caucasus region for the International
Crisis Group.
"It's incredible because the basic framework - the basic things
that the two sides seem to agree one - they same to be in relative
commonality," he told Vatican Radio. "But when you start discussing
these smaller issues, which are politically potentially explosive
or dangerous to the administrations in control...it becomes very
difficult."
Listen to the full interview by Davide Maggiore with Lawrence Sheets:
http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=563667
Vatican Radio
Feb 16 2012
Azerbaijan today called on the European Union to help find a solution
to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The predominantly ethnic-Armenian
territory was occupied by Armenia as the Soviet Union crumbled in
the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Less than a month ago, both Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents
expressed their readiness to speed up the process of reaching
agreement on the disputed territory during a meeting hosed by the
Russian president.
"The two have basically agreed at various times what the basic outline
of the resolution of the conflict would be," said Lawrence Sheets,
an analyst and expert on the Caucasus region for the International
Crisis Group.
"It's incredible because the basic framework - the basic things
that the two sides seem to agree one - they same to be in relative
commonality," he told Vatican Radio. "But when you start discussing
these smaller issues, which are politically potentially explosive
or dangerous to the administrations in control...it becomes very
difficult."
Listen to the full interview by Davide Maggiore with Lawrence Sheets:
http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=563667