VLADIMIR KAZIMIROV: ANYONE IN STRASBOURG WHO FEELS LIKE IT EXPRESSED
ABOUT KARABAKH

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17. ARMINFO. “Anyone in Strasbourg who feels like
it expressed about Karabakh: Norwegian, German, French, Bulgarian,
Polish and Turkish, all, except heralds from Moscow”. Former Russian
mediator on settlement of Karabakh conflict Vladimir Kazimirov
writes in his article “Pleasure from propaganda or negotiations
seriously”. “Either they know the problem a little or it does not
concern them at all? No speech, no amendment. Even then when the matter
concerned already not the parties of the conflict, but the role of
Russia”, Kazimirov says. For example, PACE expresses gratitude for
cease-fire in Karabakh in May 1994 not to Russia, but representatives
of OSCE, who did not have any relation to that. Russians voted for PACE
resolutions. Though Moscow heralds to Strasbourg (as well as Rapporteur
Atkinson) earlier knew about the defects in the drafts of the report,
resolution and recommendations, Kazimirov said. May be they in this
way corrected the recent lapsus of their speaker Gryzlov who declared
Armenia “Russia’s outpost in the South Caucasus”? During the war in
Karabakh their predecessors – Russian parliamentarians – were much
more accurate and constructive, made contribution to cease-fire. Now
we are waiting for news from OSCE mission, which had monitored the
occupied the districts of Azerbaijan, Kazimirov said.