Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Feb 23 2005
Russian political analyst proposes Upper Garabagh be managed by UN
Baku, February 22, AssA-Irada
Freezing the Upper Garabagh conflict settlement will result in
long-term bloody developments, political analyst, chairman of the
Presidium of the Council of Foreign and Defence Policy under the
Russian President, Sergey Karaganov, has told Armenia’s ANKA news
agency.
Karaganov said that the parties to the conflict will never come to
terms or make mutual concessions. `If any Azerbaijani leader agrees
to give up Garabagh, it will mean a political fiasco for him,’ noted
Karganov, expressing the same opinion on Armenia. As for a suitable
way of resolving the Upper Garabagh conflict for Azerbaijan and
Armenia in the long run, the Russian political analyst proposed that
a concept on territories under the UN mandate be set up in the
region. The concept envisions that the conflict zones are managed by
the United Nations.*