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NO CHANGE EXPECTED BY YEAR'S END IN KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT - POLITICAL SCIENTIST
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November 13, 2012 | 11:36
YEREVAN. - No change should be expected by the year's end in the
settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Caucasus
Institute Deputy Director, political analyst Sergey Minasyan said
during a press conference on Tuesday.
In his view, the year's greatest achievement in this process was the
preservation of the peace talks, which could have been suspended due
to the actions by Azerbaijan. "Despite the story in connection with
Ramil Safarov [the Azerbaijani army officer who had killed with an
axe Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest back in 2004 and who
was released in Azerbaijan], the Armenian party was able to preserve
the negotiation process," the analyst noted.
Reflecting on Turkey's efforts to become an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair,
Minasyan stressed that the current co-chairing countries do not intend
and are not prepared to give up their places in the peace talks.
In response to the query as to what could result in serious regional
changes, the political scientist stated that the resumption of the
railway operation via Abkhazia would become a signal for changes. "But
to settle this matter, Russia and Georgia need to resolve the existing
problems between one another," Sergey Minasyan maintained.
news.am
November 13, 2012 | 11:36
YEREVAN. - No change should be expected by the year's end in the
settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Caucasus
Institute Deputy Director, political analyst Sergey Minasyan said
during a press conference on Tuesday.
In his view, the year's greatest achievement in this process was the
preservation of the peace talks, which could have been suspended due
to the actions by Azerbaijan. "Despite the story in connection with
Ramil Safarov [the Azerbaijani army officer who had killed with an
axe Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest back in 2004 and who
was released in Azerbaijan], the Armenian party was able to preserve
the negotiation process," the analyst noted.
Reflecting on Turkey's efforts to become an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair,
Minasyan stressed that the current co-chairing countries do not intend
and are not prepared to give up their places in the peace talks.
In response to the query as to what could result in serious regional
changes, the political scientist stated that the resumption of the
railway operation via Abkhazia would become a signal for changes. "But
to settle this matter, Russia and Georgia need to resolve the existing
problems between one another," Sergey Minasyan maintained.