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OSCE MG Co-Chair States Interested in Military and Political Stability
in Region
01.07.2006 14:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Self-withdrawal of Co-Chairs of the OSCE MG for
Karabakh settlement does not mean withdrawal of the international
community from regional processes, political scientist Levon
Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, OSCE
MG Co-Chair states are even more interested in sustaining the military
and political stability in Transcaucasia than two years ago.

«The matter, of course, concerns the importance of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for Europe and latest agreements on
Kazakhstan linking up with the pipeline. An agreement with Israel on
oil transit into the Pacific region bypassing Iran is at the stage of
signing. All those projects, promising large political and financial
revenues, can be buried at once and for a long time in case
hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan resume,» he remarked. In
his opinion, against that background the seeming illogical statement
of the co-chairs has a simple explanation. «Azerbaijan is more
that integrated in all those projects and its leaders are the least
interested in a war,» he remarked.

He also underscored that under these conditions there is no need for
mediation. «Let Baku itself find cause for not resuming war. And
the consumers of its oil will threaten from time to time – do not
you dare! And it will be done for appearance, as Azerbaijan knows its
possibilities very well. Each such «do not you dare» will find
its grateful listeners and executors in Azerbaijan,» Levon
Melik-Shahnazaryan said.