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Europe is not particularly interested in South Caucasus - expert
news.am
May 02, 2012 | 02:16
By the latest resolutions of the European Parliament on Armenia and
Russia it is evident that Europe started supporting Azerbaijan,
director of the Russian/Eurasia Program, German Council on Foreign
Relations Alexander Rahr told Armenian News-NEWS.am. According to
Rahr, the only reason why Europe did not demand Armenia to call back
its troops from the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh is that the EU
is trying to find a peaceful solution between the parties of the
conflict. Commenting on the question why the OSCE co-chairs did not
assess the shooting by Azerbaijan and the death of the three Armenian
soldiers properly, Rahr said the reason is that the Karabakh conflict
as well as the whole situation in the South Caucasus is not being
discussed in Europe currently. `More important events are taking place
nearby - war might break out in Iran. Besides, today the American
influence on the South Caucasus is more powerful,' Alexander Rahr
mentioned. As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Azerbaijani
side has recently taken a number of egregious acts of provocation -
ambulance was fired on April 24 in the direction of Nagorno-Karabakh,
on April 25 the kindergarten in the village of Dovegh was shelled for
about 40 minutes, on April 26 Azerbaijani saboteurs opened fire at a
vehicle killing three Armenian soldiers.
news.am
May 02, 2012 | 02:16
By the latest resolutions of the European Parliament on Armenia and
Russia it is evident that Europe started supporting Azerbaijan,
director of the Russian/Eurasia Program, German Council on Foreign
Relations Alexander Rahr told Armenian News-NEWS.am. According to
Rahr, the only reason why Europe did not demand Armenia to call back
its troops from the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh is that the EU
is trying to find a peaceful solution between the parties of the
conflict. Commenting on the question why the OSCE co-chairs did not
assess the shooting by Azerbaijan and the death of the three Armenian
soldiers properly, Rahr said the reason is that the Karabakh conflict
as well as the whole situation in the South Caucasus is not being
discussed in Europe currently. `More important events are taking place
nearby - war might break out in Iran. Besides, today the American
influence on the South Caucasus is more powerful,' Alexander Rahr
mentioned. As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Azerbaijani
side has recently taken a number of egregious acts of provocation -
ambulance was fired on April 24 in the direction of Nagorno-Karabakh,
on April 25 the kindergarten in the village of Dovegh was shelled for
about 40 minutes, on April 26 Azerbaijani saboteurs opened fire at a
vehicle killing three Armenian soldiers.