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CSTO INCAPABLE OF PLAYING ROLE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT: RUSSIAN EXPERTS
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 25 2014
25 December 2014, 16:43 (GMT+04:00)
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) cannot play a role
in resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Alexander Golts,
a Russian military expert.
In an interview with Zhamanak, a local Armenian newspaper, Golts
said it is nonsense to expect a significant involvement of the CSTO
in the peaceful solution of Karabakh knot.
"There are periodical gossips in Moscow that the Russian diplomats
are engaged in a secret diplomacy with Armenia and Azerbaijan to
resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, but these rumors have never
been confirmed," Golts noted.
Golts believes that inter-relations within the CSTO is quite brittle
and resumption of hostilities around the Karabakh region is a
catastrophe for Moscow.
"According to the CSTO charter, Moscow should stand for Armenia as
s partner, but if we consider Armenia's relations with Azerbaijan,
then Russia cannot take risks to get engaged in a war with Azerbaijan.
That's why the only option is to prevent the belligerents from
hostilities in all possible ways," Golts said.
He added that during the recent meeting of CSTO, the participants
discussed about preventive measures in the Central Asia region,
which are not related to the South Caucasus.
Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization called
for a peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict in a joint statement issued during their most recent gathering
in Moscow on December 23.
The alliance underlined the importance of achieving a completion of
the works on the basic principles of the conflict's resolution.
Alexei Malashenko, an expert from the Carnegie Endowment's Moscow
Fund, is doubtful on Russia's role in the outbreak of hostilities in
the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Malashenko believes that neither the Russian military bases in
Armenia's territory, nor the CSTO could not play a significant role
in the resumption of warfare between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
He also claimed that the Russian Federation authorities are doing
their best at the diplomatic and non-military level, taking into
account Russia's interests in resolving the conflict.
"A war between Armenia and Azerbaijan will not see the involvement
of the Russian armed forces," Malashenko said.
Russian military experts Pavel Felgenhauer and Sergei Markov
have earlier excluded any right of the CSTO to intervene in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying the alliance has no power to make
a significant statement or take an important measure regarding the
protracted conflict.
From: A. Papazian
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 25 2014
25 December 2014, 16:43 (GMT+04:00)
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) cannot play a role
in resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Alexander Golts,
a Russian military expert.
In an interview with Zhamanak, a local Armenian newspaper, Golts
said it is nonsense to expect a significant involvement of the CSTO
in the peaceful solution of Karabakh knot.
"There are periodical gossips in Moscow that the Russian diplomats
are engaged in a secret diplomacy with Armenia and Azerbaijan to
resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, but these rumors have never
been confirmed," Golts noted.
Golts believes that inter-relations within the CSTO is quite brittle
and resumption of hostilities around the Karabakh region is a
catastrophe for Moscow.
"According to the CSTO charter, Moscow should stand for Armenia as
s partner, but if we consider Armenia's relations with Azerbaijan,
then Russia cannot take risks to get engaged in a war with Azerbaijan.
That's why the only option is to prevent the belligerents from
hostilities in all possible ways," Golts said.
He added that during the recent meeting of CSTO, the participants
discussed about preventive measures in the Central Asia region,
which are not related to the South Caucasus.
Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization called
for a peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict in a joint statement issued during their most recent gathering
in Moscow on December 23.
The alliance underlined the importance of achieving a completion of
the works on the basic principles of the conflict's resolution.
Alexei Malashenko, an expert from the Carnegie Endowment's Moscow
Fund, is doubtful on Russia's role in the outbreak of hostilities in
the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Malashenko believes that neither the Russian military bases in
Armenia's territory, nor the CSTO could not play a significant role
in the resumption of warfare between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
He also claimed that the Russian Federation authorities are doing
their best at the diplomatic and non-military level, taking into
account Russia's interests in resolving the conflict.
"A war between Armenia and Azerbaijan will not see the involvement
of the Russian armed forces," Malashenko said.
Russian military experts Pavel Felgenhauer and Sergei Markov
have earlier excluded any right of the CSTO to intervene in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying the alliance has no power to make
a significant statement or take an important measure regarding the
protracted conflict.
From: A. Papazian