AZERI POLITICAL EXPERT: THE ACTIVITY OF OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS IS NOTHING BUT A SHOW

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Nov 20 2006

"One should not expect new proposals from the visit of the Co-chairs,"
says Vafa Guluzade, political expert, ex-adviser of state of
Azerbaijan, Day.az reports.

He says all the proposals of OSCE MG Co-chairs and the positions
of the conflict parties are well-known to everyone. President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has recently stated in Turkey that he will
never approve the settlement scheme providing for existence of Nagorny
Karabakh outside Azerbaijan. The political expert believes that the
illusions of the public every time before visits of the Co-chairs have
been groundless from the very beginning. The mediators representing
Russia, USA and France bear no relations to the leadership of their
states. They are engaged in independent actions.

They are well-aware that the settlement in the current conditions
has no prospects. "That is why, I think the last rather optimistic
statements by the U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza just a speculation. The
activity of the Co-chairs is nothing but a show. It is impossible to
speak of any progress when the leadership of Armenia has occupied
the Azdrbaijani territories and states that Nagorny Karabakh has
never belonged and will never belong to Azerbaijan. While, Baku will
never agree with separation of these lands," V. Guluzade says. He
believes that the meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in
Minsk during the upcoming CIS Summit is absolutely senseless. "In the
present conditions of contradictions, the presidents will probably
have a cup of tea and break up as before," V. Guluzade says.