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WITH WHAT BORDERS WILL KARABAKH BE RECOGNIZED?
Naira Hayrumyan, Political Commentator
Comments - 10 September 2014, 22:17
Russian expert, member of the Russian Human Rights Council adjunct
to the president Maxim Shevchenko has announced that the idea of
removing Russia from the talks for the Karabakh settlement is absurd.
The idea of removing Russia from the process of settlement of
post-Soviet conflicts is being heard more often. A lot of experts
claim that the presence of Russia does not allow the frozen conflicts
to fade away. Shevchenko says Russia cannot give up on participation
because these conflicts are increasingly affecting its "outskirts".
The OSCE Minsk Group is the only format where Russia is with the United
States and Europe. This format is almost ineffective. The Minsk Group
co-chairs did not even attend the last two Sargsyan-Aliyev meetings
in Sochi and Newport.
The key issue now is what will be there instead of the Minsk Group.
Whatever is there, Karabakh will return to the table of negotiations.
The French members of parliament visiting Armenia and Karabakh said
so. Shevchenko also says so. "I have always stated that the Armenians
of Karabakh are a subject and side of the process of negotiations,
and I have constantly called on Baku to negotiate with Stepanakert,
not Yerevan," he said.
The Armenian side has insisted on the participation of Karabakh
in the negotiations for many years to shift the process from the
Armenian-Azerbaijani platform to the platform of self-determination.
This is the only argument heard from Stepanakert though nobody can
say for sure what advantage it will bring to the Armenian sides.
The Armenian side has been claiming the participation of Karabakh
in the negotiations in order to shift the process from the
Armenian-Azerbaijani platform to the platform of self-determination.
This is the only argument heard from Stepanakert though nobody can
tell for sure what advantage it will bring to the Armenian sides.
What is the intention of returning Karabakh to the talks related to?
Shevchenko, for example, thinks that Stepanakert will agree to
the option of returning to the setting of 1988. "I think Karabakh
must be an independent state but follow Switzerland, there must be
a canton system, Azerbaijani, Armenian," he says. In other words,
Stepanakert is needed to "surrender" to the Russian-Turkish plan of
division of Karabakh.
It is hard to tell whether this is Russia's official stance though
the Russian foreign minister Lavrov has also spoken about the
"inevitability of return of territories". And one can claim that this
is Russia's offer relating to Karabakh.
In Newport John Kerry revealed the U.S. proposals: preservation of the
Minsk Group and status quo, as well as unacceptability of escalation.
Besides, 5 U.S. states have recognized the NKR independence.
And what does the other co-chair France offer aside from the
participation of Karabakh in the negotiations? France has set up a
friendship group with Karabakh which includes present and former MPs,
political and public personalities.
For his part, the EU Commissioner Stefan Fule visiting Baku has
announced that Crimea and Karabakh are different in answer to the
question of the Azerbaijani journalist why "annexation of Crimea"
is condemned, whereas "occupation of Karabakh" is not. He did not
specify but apparently the reason for the "kind" attitude to Karabakh
is that Karabakh did not allow Russia to annex it.
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Naira Hayrumyan, Political Commentator
Comments - 10 September 2014, 22:17
Russian expert, member of the Russian Human Rights Council adjunct
to the president Maxim Shevchenko has announced that the idea of
removing Russia from the talks for the Karabakh settlement is absurd.
The idea of removing Russia from the process of settlement of
post-Soviet conflicts is being heard more often. A lot of experts
claim that the presence of Russia does not allow the frozen conflicts
to fade away. Shevchenko says Russia cannot give up on participation
because these conflicts are increasingly affecting its "outskirts".
The OSCE Minsk Group is the only format where Russia is with the United
States and Europe. This format is almost ineffective. The Minsk Group
co-chairs did not even attend the last two Sargsyan-Aliyev meetings
in Sochi and Newport.
The key issue now is what will be there instead of the Minsk Group.
Whatever is there, Karabakh will return to the table of negotiations.
The French members of parliament visiting Armenia and Karabakh said
so. Shevchenko also says so. "I have always stated that the Armenians
of Karabakh are a subject and side of the process of negotiations,
and I have constantly called on Baku to negotiate with Stepanakert,
not Yerevan," he said.
The Armenian side has insisted on the participation of Karabakh
in the negotiations for many years to shift the process from the
Armenian-Azerbaijani platform to the platform of self-determination.
This is the only argument heard from Stepanakert though nobody can
say for sure what advantage it will bring to the Armenian sides.
The Armenian side has been claiming the participation of Karabakh
in the negotiations in order to shift the process from the
Armenian-Azerbaijani platform to the platform of self-determination.
This is the only argument heard from Stepanakert though nobody can
tell for sure what advantage it will bring to the Armenian sides.
What is the intention of returning Karabakh to the talks related to?
Shevchenko, for example, thinks that Stepanakert will agree to
the option of returning to the setting of 1988. "I think Karabakh
must be an independent state but follow Switzerland, there must be
a canton system, Azerbaijani, Armenian," he says. In other words,
Stepanakert is needed to "surrender" to the Russian-Turkish plan of
division of Karabakh.
It is hard to tell whether this is Russia's official stance though
the Russian foreign minister Lavrov has also spoken about the
"inevitability of return of territories". And one can claim that this
is Russia's offer relating to Karabakh.
In Newport John Kerry revealed the U.S. proposals: preservation of the
Minsk Group and status quo, as well as unacceptability of escalation.
Besides, 5 U.S. states have recognized the NKR independence.
And what does the other co-chair France offer aside from the
participation of Karabakh in the negotiations? France has set up a
friendship group with Karabakh which includes present and former MPs,
political and public personalities.
For his part, the EU Commissioner Stefan Fule visiting Baku has
announced that Crimea and Karabakh are different in answer to the
question of the Azerbaijani journalist why "annexation of Crimea"
is condemned, whereas "occupation of Karabakh" is not. He did not
specify but apparently the reason for the "kind" attitude to Karabakh
is that Karabakh did not allow Russia to annex it.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/32961#sthash.Wfn6Hweo.dpuf