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Trend News Agency (Baku, Azerbaijan)
December 6, 2014 Saturday
Fruitless outcomes of negotiation process-2014 on Nagorno-Karabakh
byElmira Tariverdiyeva
Dec. 06--At the year-end it is usual to sum up the results of
political processes that have taken place throughout this period.
However, in the case of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, summing up the results becomes increasingly meaningless from
year to year.
The 21st OSCE Ministerial Council held in Basel, Switzerland, didn't
bring any results other than another statement of heads of delegations
of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries urging the sides to comply
with the ceasefire regime and common phrases of major figures of
European diplomacy on the need to resolve the conflict.
The foreign ministers of the conflicting sides met with OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs, discussed the current situation and...And didn't
reach any decision again. Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov even didn't meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian as part of the 21st OSCE Ministerial Council. And this in
general proves the vainness of co-chairs' efforts to present the
negotiations in OSCE MG format as positive.
Alongside with the conflicting sides, all the observers are also aware
that the format of OSCE mediation doesn't work and is confined to
declarative calls.
One would think that in such a good time, after Azerbaijan and Armenia
have already held presidential election, in a year, when at the
initiative of the presidents of Russia, France and the US State
secretary the leaders of the two countries held three meetings, at
least some progress could be expected. Alas! Nothing new has happened
excluding another provocation by Yerevan.
And who will condemn the military command and authorities of the
aggressor country, if the international mediators allow them to do
everything that is contrary to the international law, only limiting
themselves to the endless appeals? Why not hold military exercises on
the occupied territories turning a blind eye to the light reproaches
from the OSCE Minsk Group, if it provides no threat? With human lives
not taken into account, the Armenian authorities are known to be
indifferent to the victims on the path of their self-will.
Thus, one just doesn't feel like summing up the Nagorno-Karabakh
process for the last year at all. And all the optimistic promises of
the intermediaries that they will continue efforts sound less and less
convincing today. Efforts remaining futile for more than 20 years, are
apparently made in the wrong manner and from the wrong place!
From: A. Papazian
December 6, 2014 Saturday
Fruitless outcomes of negotiation process-2014 on Nagorno-Karabakh
byElmira Tariverdiyeva
Dec. 06--At the year-end it is usual to sum up the results of
political processes that have taken place throughout this period.
However, in the case of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, summing up the results becomes increasingly meaningless from
year to year.
The 21st OSCE Ministerial Council held in Basel, Switzerland, didn't
bring any results other than another statement of heads of delegations
of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries urging the sides to comply
with the ceasefire regime and common phrases of major figures of
European diplomacy on the need to resolve the conflict.
The foreign ministers of the conflicting sides met with OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs, discussed the current situation and...And didn't
reach any decision again. Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov even didn't meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian as part of the 21st OSCE Ministerial Council. And this in
general proves the vainness of co-chairs' efforts to present the
negotiations in OSCE MG format as positive.
Alongside with the conflicting sides, all the observers are also aware
that the format of OSCE mediation doesn't work and is confined to
declarative calls.
One would think that in such a good time, after Azerbaijan and Armenia
have already held presidential election, in a year, when at the
initiative of the presidents of Russia, France and the US State
secretary the leaders of the two countries held three meetings, at
least some progress could be expected. Alas! Nothing new has happened
excluding another provocation by Yerevan.
And who will condemn the military command and authorities of the
aggressor country, if the international mediators allow them to do
everything that is contrary to the international law, only limiting
themselves to the endless appeals? Why not hold military exercises on
the occupied territories turning a blind eye to the light reproaches
from the OSCE Minsk Group, if it provides no threat? With human lives
not taken into account, the Armenian authorities are known to be
indifferent to the victims on the path of their self-will.
Thus, one just doesn't feel like summing up the Nagorno-Karabakh
process for the last year at all. And all the optimistic promises of
the intermediaries that they will continue efforts sound less and less
convincing today. Efforts remaining futile for more than 20 years, are
apparently made in the wrong manner and from the wrong place!
From: A. Papazian