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RECOMMENDATIONS ON SECURITY ISSUES IN THE REGION OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT
Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijan
September 24, 2013 Tuesday
In the framework of the "Breaking the Impasse" project, a group of
experts from the region of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict met in Berlin
on September 13-17, 2013. Based on international humanitarian law,
the group offers a number of recommendations to strengthen security
in the conflict zone. The recommendations that were developed refer
to those aspects concerning security around which the group was able
to develop a consensus. At the same time the present document does not
claim to provide a comprehensive overview of the questions concerning
security in the conflict zone. The group recommends to:
- calling on the sides to rigorously maintain the ceasefire regime
and to prevent any actions leading to casualties in the civilian
population and among military personnel;
- developing measures to strengthen civic control over maintenance
of the ceasefire regime;
- developing measures that would exclude expressions of xenophobia,
hate speech and the language of violence;
- initiating a depoliticized process to develop legal norms and
guarantees for secure return and/or compensation for all individuals
who were forced to leave their homes;
- studying the experience of demilitarized zones throughout the world
and the possibility of implementing a demilitarized zone in the region
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
This document was produced in the framework of a project implemented
with organizational support from The Center for Peacemaking Practice
in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason
University and the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation. The
project is supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
reads the press release sent to Turan news agency. No other details
reported. -0-
Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijan
September 24, 2013 Tuesday
In the framework of the "Breaking the Impasse" project, a group of
experts from the region of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict met in Berlin
on September 13-17, 2013. Based on international humanitarian law,
the group offers a number of recommendations to strengthen security
in the conflict zone. The recommendations that were developed refer
to those aspects concerning security around which the group was able
to develop a consensus. At the same time the present document does not
claim to provide a comprehensive overview of the questions concerning
security in the conflict zone. The group recommends to:
- calling on the sides to rigorously maintain the ceasefire regime
and to prevent any actions leading to casualties in the civilian
population and among military personnel;
- developing measures to strengthen civic control over maintenance
of the ceasefire regime;
- developing measures that would exclude expressions of xenophobia,
hate speech and the language of violence;
- initiating a depoliticized process to develop legal norms and
guarantees for secure return and/or compensation for all individuals
who were forced to leave their homes;
- studying the experience of demilitarized zones throughout the world
and the possibility of implementing a demilitarized zone in the region
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
This document was produced in the framework of a project implemented
with organizational support from The Center for Peacemaking Practice
in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason
University and the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation. The
project is supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
reads the press release sent to Turan news agency. No other details
reported. -0-