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Experts: Attention will revert back to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue
arminfo
Tuesday, May 8, 23:05
There are concerns that tensions may increase over the summer period.
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have been busy with domestic issues in
recent months, Armenia with the Parliamentary Elections that were held
last Sunday and Azerbaijan preparing for the Eurovision festival,
which will be held later this month. With these two events out of the
way, attention will revert back to the Nagorno- Karabakh issue, say
commonspace.eu experts before the upcoming visit of the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs to the Caucasus.
The experts say that the diplomats representing France, Russia and the
United States will travel to the region this week in an effort to
defuse tension on the line of contact separating Armenian and
Azerbaijani forces that has been increasing over the last weeks, as a
result of which several people have been killed.
"The Minsk Group Co-Chairs want to strengthen the monitoring
arrangements on the line of contact in order to try to avoid further
incidents. Azerbaijan is against this as long as it is not part of a
settlement process. The negotiations on resolving the conflict appear
to be stalled. Efforts by Dimitri Medvedev when he was President of
Russia to push for a breakthrough failed. It is not yet clear if the
Russian leadership will want to pick up the initiative again, and in
what format. The newly installed President Vladimir Putin seems to
have less patience for the sort of protracted negotiations that are
likely to be required. If Medvedev, in his new role as Prime Minister
of Russia, pursues the negotiations he may find that his diminished
status may impact negatively on the talks. Neither France nor the
United States are likely to be involved at this stage at the level of
the President. The co-Chair will take soundings from the interested
parties during their visit this week, before they report back to their
respective capitals," say the experts.
As was reported earlier, May 11 the co-chairs will visit Armenia, May
12 Nagorno-Karabakh, May 13 Azerbaijan.
arminfo
Tuesday, May 8, 23:05
There are concerns that tensions may increase over the summer period.
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have been busy with domestic issues in
recent months, Armenia with the Parliamentary Elections that were held
last Sunday and Azerbaijan preparing for the Eurovision festival,
which will be held later this month. With these two events out of the
way, attention will revert back to the Nagorno- Karabakh issue, say
commonspace.eu experts before the upcoming visit of the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs to the Caucasus.
The experts say that the diplomats representing France, Russia and the
United States will travel to the region this week in an effort to
defuse tension on the line of contact separating Armenian and
Azerbaijani forces that has been increasing over the last weeks, as a
result of which several people have been killed.
"The Minsk Group Co-Chairs want to strengthen the monitoring
arrangements on the line of contact in order to try to avoid further
incidents. Azerbaijan is against this as long as it is not part of a
settlement process. The negotiations on resolving the conflict appear
to be stalled. Efforts by Dimitri Medvedev when he was President of
Russia to push for a breakthrough failed. It is not yet clear if the
Russian leadership will want to pick up the initiative again, and in
what format. The newly installed President Vladimir Putin seems to
have less patience for the sort of protracted negotiations that are
likely to be required. If Medvedev, in his new role as Prime Minister
of Russia, pursues the negotiations he may find that his diminished
status may impact negatively on the talks. Neither France nor the
United States are likely to be involved at this stage at the level of
the President. The co-Chair will take soundings from the interested
parties during their visit this week, before they report back to their
respective capitals," say the experts.
As was reported earlier, May 11 the co-chairs will visit Armenia, May
12 Nagorno-Karabakh, May 13 Azerbaijan.