MAJOR TASK AT GIVEN STAGE OF SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH
CONFLICT IS STRENGTHENING OF CEASE-FIRE: V.KAZIMIROV

YEREVAN, JUNE 29. ARMINFO. The major task at the given stage of
settlement of Karabakh conflict is strengthening of cease-fire and
guarantee that military actions will not be resumed, the former
co-chair of OSCE MG Vladimir Kazimirov tells APA.

He says the opening of communications is, indeed, important, but it
is not of the most important ones. The circumstance that despite the
confidentiality of negotiations, initiatives were made public
testifies to the focus on the external effect and not fundamental
developmental work with Armenians, Kazimirov thinks. ‘For over 17
years Azerbaijan had strictly blocked Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia
and inclined Turkey and other states to it despite the calls of
international structures. Is it easy to believe in a readiness for a
sharp change at present?’ Kazimirov asked. Giving a positive
assessment of the proposal on contacts with Nagorny Karabakh,
Kazimirov says that aspiration to bring everything to a dialogue at a
level of communities once more confirms the unwillingness to resume a
direct contact Baku-Stepanakert. Karabakh is a conflicting party and
it can be seen in international documents and a number of agreements
of 1993-94 on restriction and stoppage of military actions, Kazimirov
says. In his words, neither the road nor the oil pipeline can
guarantee that military actions will not be resumed, but they can
contribute to it indirectly.

As regards the expected involvement of experts into the negotiation
process, Kazimirov called it inevitable when ideas agreed on must be
put on paper, adding that “it will open a new line of difficulties in
the process of formulation and details. Sometimes, there is a
temptation to escape with general mutually- acceptable formulas, but
it will save from disagreements only for some period of time.
Shrotly, experts will have must uneasy work to do,” Kazimirov thinks.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress