NAGORNO KARABAKH PROBLEM HINDERS REALIZATION OF U.S. IDEAS IN CAUCASUS
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.04.2007 19:44 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Paramount importance of the South Caucasus in
military-strategic plan made its economic importance secondary,
however such a development of events contradicts interests of the
countries in the region," Russian political scientist Alexander Krilov
says. In his article titled "South Caucasus: bridgehead instead of
capitalistic paradise" he underlines all the countries in the region
are vitally interested in making the South Caucasus a key player in
transit of energy resources from the Central Asia.
"But because of the unsettled Nagorno Karabakh problem from the very
beginning Armenia occurred out of the process of building energy
corridors. As a result only Azerbaijan and Georgia can claim to the
role of transit states. The Bush Administration thinks, it would be the
best variant if Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia simultaneously access
NATO. Official Tbilisi holds to such a perspective with enthusiasm
and Baku with some stipulations (Azerbaijan demands first of all
to withdraw Armenian troops from the Nagorno Karabakh and other
"occupied" territories and bring it back under the jurisdiction of
Azeri government)", the Russian political scientist writes.
He says, the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the
unsettled Nagorno Karabakh conflict hinders realization of U.S. ideas
in Caucasus. "Still the United States and his allies have not found
mutually acceptable compromise between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In
such conditions Washington refused from the plan to include the whole
South Caucasus in NATO.
Instead it is made clear that Washington is for Georgia’s accession
to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," says Krilov in his article
published in "New Policy" web-site.