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EXPERT BLOG: MEDIATORS COULDN'T RECOVER AFTER 'KAZAN SETBACK'
Friday,
October
04
When responding to questions of MPs following his speech in the PACE,
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan touched upon the negotiating process
on Karabakh settlement, disclosing some details.
That Azerbaijan ruined the meeting in Kazan was known as long ago as
June 2011, but the fact that Azerbaijan 'approved' the Madrid document
in 2008 raises some questions. The fact is Azerbaijan has long said
that he doesn't know what document is being talked about. Moreover,
instead of expressing its official position in response to the
proposals, Azerbaijan has declared since 2007 that Armenia didn't
accept the submitted proposals.
Yet Armenia expressed its positive position on the document shortly
after the presentation of the Madrid Proposals. And approval of that
document means that the given side deems it possible to resolve the
conflict based on these principles.
So it turns out that even at the time when Azerbaijan accepted
the documents at meeting with the mediators, it avoided voicing its
official position publicly. The reason is that the conflict resolution
in the document was based on a number of principles, two of which
'irritated' Azerbaijan. The matter concerns the principles of peoples'
right to self-determination and non-use of force or threat of force.
The only principle that 'satisfied' Azerbaijan was territorial
integrity, on which the propaganda policy of Azerbaijan is constructed.
By the way, according to the established 'rules of game', these three
principles and the six published elements form a single whole and
their separation is doomed to fail.
In any case, prior to the Kazan meeting Azerbaijan assured the
mediators that he saw no obstacles to signing of the document on
the fundamental principles, assuming it as a basis, and continuing
the negotiations, but in Kazan, Azerbaijan not only rejected the
agreements, while putting forward ten new proposals, but also tried to
dissociate itself from the document being negotiated on for 3-4 years.
2007-2011 were quite active years in terms of negotiations - in
parallel with efforts of the mediators, trilateral meetings of the
presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia were held with the
mediation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Of course, after the Kazan meeting, Azerbaijan tried to 'put up
resistance' and find a way out of the situation, but everything was so
obvious that even Azerbaijan's 'super efforts' could not substantiate
its behavior in Kazan. Yet the severest blow was delivered to the
mediators who could not recover for a long time, although the political
line of Azerbaijan was clear to Armenia initially.
It becomes clear from the Armenian president's statements in the
PACE that no new document has been presented to the sides since the
Kazan meeting.
TODAY, 10:50
Aysor.am
Friday,
October
04
When responding to questions of MPs following his speech in the PACE,
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan touched upon the negotiating process
on Karabakh settlement, disclosing some details.
That Azerbaijan ruined the meeting in Kazan was known as long ago as
June 2011, but the fact that Azerbaijan 'approved' the Madrid document
in 2008 raises some questions. The fact is Azerbaijan has long said
that he doesn't know what document is being talked about. Moreover,
instead of expressing its official position in response to the
proposals, Azerbaijan has declared since 2007 that Armenia didn't
accept the submitted proposals.
Yet Armenia expressed its positive position on the document shortly
after the presentation of the Madrid Proposals. And approval of that
document means that the given side deems it possible to resolve the
conflict based on these principles.
So it turns out that even at the time when Azerbaijan accepted
the documents at meeting with the mediators, it avoided voicing its
official position publicly. The reason is that the conflict resolution
in the document was based on a number of principles, two of which
'irritated' Azerbaijan. The matter concerns the principles of peoples'
right to self-determination and non-use of force or threat of force.
The only principle that 'satisfied' Azerbaijan was territorial
integrity, on which the propaganda policy of Azerbaijan is constructed.
By the way, according to the established 'rules of game', these three
principles and the six published elements form a single whole and
their separation is doomed to fail.
In any case, prior to the Kazan meeting Azerbaijan assured the
mediators that he saw no obstacles to signing of the document on
the fundamental principles, assuming it as a basis, and continuing
the negotiations, but in Kazan, Azerbaijan not only rejected the
agreements, while putting forward ten new proposals, but also tried to
dissociate itself from the document being negotiated on for 3-4 years.
2007-2011 were quite active years in terms of negotiations - in
parallel with efforts of the mediators, trilateral meetings of the
presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia were held with the
mediation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Of course, after the Kazan meeting, Azerbaijan tried to 'put up
resistance' and find a way out of the situation, but everything was so
obvious that even Azerbaijan's 'super efforts' could not substantiate
its behavior in Kazan. Yet the severest blow was delivered to the
mediators who could not recover for a long time, although the political
line of Azerbaijan was clear to Armenia initially.
It becomes clear from the Armenian president's statements in the
PACE that no new document has been presented to the sides since the
Kazan meeting.
TODAY, 10:50
Aysor.am