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SERGEY MARKEDONOV: RUSSIA STARTS 'REVAMPING' ONLY WHEN IT FEELS A THREAT OF BEING OUSTED FROM THE FIELDS AND REGIONS OF ITS INTERESTS
by David Stepanyan
ARMINFO
Thursday, August 14, 12:00
It would be rather strangely if Moscow began "brushing out" the
institutes that somehow ensure the status quo around the Karabakh
conflict. That is why in Sochi the presidents did not mention any
fundamentally new approach to the NK conflict's resolution that would
somehow ran contrary to the renovated Madrid Principles. The remarks
came from Sergey Markedonov, Associate Professor at the Russian State
Humanitarian University, well-known political analyst, in an interview
with ArmInfo.
To recall, the trilateral meeting Sargsyan-Aliyev-Putin in Sochi on
10 August was the initiative of the Russian leader. The sides agreed
to continue the peace talks and defuse tensions in the conflict zone.
"Anyway, the Russian president's rhetoric that reaffirmed the
importance and inalterability of the existing international formats
of the NK peace process means that Moscow does not seek to replay
the Karabakh "game" in a radically new way. In the given case, it
was nothing but pragmatism, considering that new formats may be very
unpredictable. Considering the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, Russia is
not interested in new challenges along its borders, the analyst said.
Markedonov explains Moscow's efforts to minimize new risks with a
desire to suspend the situation in Eurasia. According to him, Moscow
starts 'revamping' only when it feels a threat of being ousted from
the fields and regions of its interests, like it happened in Ossetia
and Abkhazia. The West, specifically the USA, could easily use the
Karabakh conflict as a precedent for other regions in Eurasia, if
they viewed the Sochi meeting outcome in the sense of pragmatism.
"Although it is difficult to say if the tripartite mediating body
on the NK conflict will become permanent or not, it is obvious that
the given format is again demanded, hardly replaceable and extremely
needed," the analyst said for conclusion.
Since 1992 the OSCE Minsk Group represented by co-chairs from Russia,
U.S. and France has been mediating in resolution of the conflict
unleashed by Azerbaijan in 1988. At present the peace process is
based on the Madrid Principles suggested by the OSCE MG in 2007 in
Madrid and renovated in 2009.
From: Baghdasarian
by David Stepanyan
ARMINFO
Thursday, August 14, 12:00
It would be rather strangely if Moscow began "brushing out" the
institutes that somehow ensure the status quo around the Karabakh
conflict. That is why in Sochi the presidents did not mention any
fundamentally new approach to the NK conflict's resolution that would
somehow ran contrary to the renovated Madrid Principles. The remarks
came from Sergey Markedonov, Associate Professor at the Russian State
Humanitarian University, well-known political analyst, in an interview
with ArmInfo.
To recall, the trilateral meeting Sargsyan-Aliyev-Putin in Sochi on
10 August was the initiative of the Russian leader. The sides agreed
to continue the peace talks and defuse tensions in the conflict zone.
"Anyway, the Russian president's rhetoric that reaffirmed the
importance and inalterability of the existing international formats
of the NK peace process means that Moscow does not seek to replay
the Karabakh "game" in a radically new way. In the given case, it
was nothing but pragmatism, considering that new formats may be very
unpredictable. Considering the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, Russia is
not interested in new challenges along its borders, the analyst said.
Markedonov explains Moscow's efforts to minimize new risks with a
desire to suspend the situation in Eurasia. According to him, Moscow
starts 'revamping' only when it feels a threat of being ousted from
the fields and regions of its interests, like it happened in Ossetia
and Abkhazia. The West, specifically the USA, could easily use the
Karabakh conflict as a precedent for other regions in Eurasia, if
they viewed the Sochi meeting outcome in the sense of pragmatism.
"Although it is difficult to say if the tripartite mediating body
on the NK conflict will become permanent or not, it is obvious that
the given format is again demanded, hardly replaceable and extremely
needed," the analyst said for conclusion.
Since 1992 the OSCE Minsk Group represented by co-chairs from Russia,
U.S. and France has been mediating in resolution of the conflict
unleashed by Azerbaijan in 1988. At present the peace process is
based on the Madrid Principles suggested by the OSCE MG in 2007 in
Madrid and renovated in 2009.
From: Baghdasarian