SABINE FREIZER: KARABAKH CONFLICT NOT FROZEN
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.03.2006 20:27 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Sabine Freizer, Caucasus project director for
the International Crisis Group, said March 28 in Washington that
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is not a frozen conflict. “There are
still people being killed regularly,” she underlined. As many as 19
people, including eight civilians, have been killed in cease-fire
violations over the past month, following inconclusive peace talks in
Rambouillet, she said. As many as 90 people were killed in 2005. She
said renewed warfare does not seem imminent but could be triggered by
“an unraveling” along the tense, heavily armed confrontation line.
Many of the Armenian-occupied towns outside of Nagorno Karabakh
have been destroyed and would require substantial rebuilding,
Freizer said. The region is especially sensitive because of its
geography. Renewed fighting in Nagorno Karabakh potentially could
involve Russia, Iran, the Republic of Georgia and Turkey, Freizer said,
reported Trend news agency.