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KARABAKH AND EURASIAN UNION
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26205.html
Published: 16:12:46 - 15/05/2012
Today, Vladimir Putin's mediation in the Karabakh negotiations may be
tested. The informal summit of the CIS countries with the participation
of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham
Aliyev will be held today evening.
They will most likely congratulate Vladimir Putin and will expect
new Karabakh initiatives.
Analysts affirm Putin's mediation, unlike Medvedev, may come out
rougher and even compulsory. Medvedev's mediation of three years,
who initiated the trilateral format of negotiations, brought the
Karabakh issue settlement to the line when the point is no longer
about the preservation of the current situation, but settlement. The
adopted documents deal with the "acceleration" of the agreement of
the basic principles, activation of humanitarian ties and creation
of mechanisms to investigate border incidents.
What will Putin propose as a mediator? He will hardly take up step
breaking the status quo, more likely, he will use the situation to
solve his own problems.
Putin's main task, which he mentioned as priority of the foreign
policy, will be the integration on the post-Soviet territory and
creation of Eurasian Union. Vladimir Putin will use all the methods
to attract the former soviet countries into this union. But few hopes
can be connected with Azerbaijan in this issue, while Armenia is one
of the first candidatures to the Eurasian Union.
Of course, Putin will use all the mediatory possibilities to scare
Yerevan of the change of status quo and seize the agreement of Armenia
to join the Eurasian Union. In order to convince, Putin may even show
how fragile the status quo is.
Putin has no other reasons to settle the Karabakh issue or to activate
negotiations. And if the Armenian leadership manages to tell the
Russian president openly its position on the Eurasian union, perhaps,
it will be possible to avoid speculations on the Karabakh settlement.
Otherwise, some more young men standing on the border will not return
home, but they won't know they were killed by someone's irrepressible
wish to create the Eurasian Union.
From: A. Papazian
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26205.html
Published: 16:12:46 - 15/05/2012
Today, Vladimir Putin's mediation in the Karabakh negotiations may be
tested. The informal summit of the CIS countries with the participation
of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham
Aliyev will be held today evening.
They will most likely congratulate Vladimir Putin and will expect
new Karabakh initiatives.
Analysts affirm Putin's mediation, unlike Medvedev, may come out
rougher and even compulsory. Medvedev's mediation of three years,
who initiated the trilateral format of negotiations, brought the
Karabakh issue settlement to the line when the point is no longer
about the preservation of the current situation, but settlement. The
adopted documents deal with the "acceleration" of the agreement of
the basic principles, activation of humanitarian ties and creation
of mechanisms to investigate border incidents.
What will Putin propose as a mediator? He will hardly take up step
breaking the status quo, more likely, he will use the situation to
solve his own problems.
Putin's main task, which he mentioned as priority of the foreign
policy, will be the integration on the post-Soviet territory and
creation of Eurasian Union. Vladimir Putin will use all the methods
to attract the former soviet countries into this union. But few hopes
can be connected with Azerbaijan in this issue, while Armenia is one
of the first candidatures to the Eurasian Union.
Of course, Putin will use all the mediatory possibilities to scare
Yerevan of the change of status quo and seize the agreement of Armenia
to join the Eurasian Union. In order to convince, Putin may even show
how fragile the status quo is.
Putin has no other reasons to settle the Karabakh issue or to activate
negotiations. And if the Armenian leadership manages to tell the
Russian president openly its position on the Eurasian union, perhaps,
it will be possible to avoid speculations on the Karabakh settlement.
Otherwise, some more young men standing on the border will not return
home, but they won't know they were killed by someone's irrepressible
wish to create the Eurasian Union.
From: A. Papazian