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ZATULIN: BORDERS ONCE DRAWN BY SOMEONE NOT ETERNAL

15.09.2005 04:28

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yesterday Simultaneous CUS: Abkhazia, Transdniestria,
South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh as post-soviet space realities conference
opened in Moscow. As stated by CIS Institute Director, Russian State Duma
Deputy, member of State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with
Compatriots Constantine Zatulin, who is one of organizers of the event, the
conference was being arranged for some half a year. Its main goal was to
acquaint wide public with the life in unrecognized states. `We want to hear
opinions of political scientists, experts, public figures of those states,’
he stated. `By the way, on the eve of the conference it seems to me that
Georgia and Azerbaijan started panic over the conference held, following
someone’s example. In my opinion, Georgia got totally afraid that we are
going to form a simultaneous CUS. In the reality `simultaneous CUS’, which
underlies the conference title, only reflects our notion of the happening,
i.e. simultaneous Commonwealth of Unrecognized States, CUS in short [the
acronym CUS in Russian is the same as CIS – Commonwealth of Independent
States – translator’s note]. No one was going to recognize the commonwealth
as a formal structure in the course of the conference. There is no
commonwealth of the kind, however it is available due to the fact of these
formations being thrown away from the legal political life and legitimate
international relations. As of the signing of any documents, nothing of the
kind will take place and it was not provided for initially,’ Zatulin added.
`The Soviet Union has collapsed and then why we should believe that borders
once drawn by someone, e.g. providing for presence of Nagorno Karabakh in
Azerbaijan or Abkhazia as part of Georgia, are something eternal, not
subject to any correction due to the events taking place?.. Besides, we do
not make any political decisions at the conference. Even if we did, I think
that impartial consideration of the issue, an attempt to present an
alternative viewpoint is very important. As of the nervous response of
Azerbaijan to the fact of organization of the conference, I regret the
reaction was that of the kind,’ the Russian MP stated, reported the Echo
Baku newspaper.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress