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    Does Armenia Give Up Minsk Group?


    During the meeting with the Azerbaijani foreign minister and the OSCE
    Minsk Group co-chairs Armenia's foreign minister, according to the
    press release of the foreign ministry, drew the attention of the
    co-chairs to Azerbaijan's military provocations, which he described as
    neglect towards the co-chairs, as well a factor impeding the
    settlement.

    The official release does not specify whether Nalbandyan said that to
    the co-chairs in the presence of Mammedyarov or during his separate
    meeting with the co-chairs. There are no details about the answer of
    the co-chairs.

    Everyone is aware of their public evaluations. These evaluations are
    mostly general. Of course, very often the messages between the lines
    or the underwater part of the iceberg, and the addressee of the
    statement either understands who the general statement is addressed to
    or if it does not understand, they make it clear through other ways.
    However, one cannot notice that they are trying to convey something to
    Azerbaijan, it does not understand and they are trying to explain it
    in another way.

    Moreover, the impression is that Yerevan is sitting in front of the
    mirror and complaining to its own reflection. There is no need to be
    surprised. Yerevan, for example, dared complain to CSTO of actions of
    its members that are not in line with its interests. However, Yerevan
    was ignored, and Russia continues its trade with Baku, and CSTO
    Secretary General Borduzha announces that all CSTO members have
    dissatisfactions with one another.

    If Yerevan's grievances are ignored in the alliance which is
    considered the guarantor of its security, how about elsewhere? By the
    way, Azerbaijan has been keeping the border villages of Armenia, which
    is the territory of CSTO, under constant firing whereas CSTO has not
    uttered a single word on this. In addition, Armenia has not brought up
    this issue in CSTO either.

    It would not be a surprise if the American and French co-chairs of the
    OSCE Minsk Group, plus NATO and the EU announce that we should first
    complain to and demand action by the alliance which has declared
    itself the guarantor of our security.

    And while Yerevan conducts an in-front-of-the-mirror foreign policy,
    Azerbaijan continues its own policy a component of which is commando
    attacks.

    The Armenian side describes those attacks as attempts to thwart the
    settlement. If the Armenian diplomats really think so, they must be
    diplomatically insane or infantile.

    The point is that Azerbaijan with its military provocations does not
    thwart the negotiations and the settlement but it is its style of
    negotiation and settlement. It is using these methods to gain
    advantage in the talks, create a basis for new claims, create a
    situation in which it will trade off commandoes in return for
    something else. Baku this tries to change the state of things and the
    balance of forces in the process called settlement.

    Yerevan does not oppose. Moreover, in response to all this Yerevan
    appears before the international community as an utterly irresponsible
    subject which cannot be a reliable partner because it does not have
    its own policy and its policy is an annex to Moscow's foreign policy.
    On September 3 Yerevan proved this.

    In other words, Armenia stops being a party to the negotiations as a
    sovereign state. It actually creates an emergency situation in this
    process. And the process is part of a bigger thing than just the
    settlement of the issue of Artsakh. Moreover, the settlement of the
    issue itself was a rod supporting the format of the Minsk Group while
    the group dealt with a broader scope of economic and political issues,
    acting as a unique bilateral platform for Russia, France and the
    United States.

    However, if Armenia waives its right to foreign policy, proportions
    will change considerably, and the axis of the Minsk Group will be
    endangered. It is not accidental that Turkey and Azerbaijan did not
    try to set the issue of Artsakh against the membership of Armenia
    against the Customs Union. They did not need to hinder Armenia's
    membership to continue to dissolve the axis of the Minsk Group. After
    all, Turkey and Azerbaijan have been doing everything to change the
    format of the Minsk Group. What Turkey and Azerbaijan failed to do so
    far are now doing together with the governments of Armenia and Russia
    under a funny wording on enhancing Armenia's security. One can judge
    how security of Armenia has been enhanced by Azerbaijan's continuous
    brazen behavior and calmness.


    Hakob Badalyan,Political Commentator
    19:28 25/01/2014
    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31800

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