KAZIMIROV: INCIDENTS AT FRONTLINE NOTHING BUT CYNICAL MEANS TO AGGRAVATE TENSION
PanARMENIAN.Net
17.09.2007 14:52 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Divergence of statements made by the Azeri and
Armenian Defense Ministries as regards incidents at the contact line
is not a novelty. There are plenty of mutually excluding statements,"
former Russian Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Vladimir
Kazimirov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.
"It’s not hard to clarify their essence. How do skirmishes influence
on the situation? First of all, it’s a cynical means to aggravate
tension and incite hatred toward the adversary, to test the positions
and efficiency. Incidents emerge by another reason as well. Refusing
to move away the frontline, Baku preserved the previous distance
between the armed forces (several hundreds meters, as it used to be
during the war) and even tried to shorten it lately.
Not only soldiers and officers but also civilians die.
Here a question arouses: what is more important – people’s life or
maintenance of tension? Which side is interested in strained atmosphere
at the contact line?
Isn’t it the one threatening with revenge?" he said.
"There is one more aspect. On Russia’s initiative, February 4, 1995 all
three parties to the conflict signed a ceasefire agreement under the
aegis of the OSCE. They undertook to communicate in order to localize
and settle the conflict as well as prevent development of enemy
propaganda. The document was signed by the Defense Ministers with the
approval of Heydar Aliyev, Levon Ter-Petrosian and Robert Kocharian.
However, the sides fail to obey the agreement. When I pointed out to
the anomaly, Armenia’s Serge Sargsyan and NK’s Seyran Ohanyan over 2
years ago publicly announced they are ready to fulfill the provisions
of the agreement if Baku does the same. However, Safar Abiyev was not
capable to utter anything, except for threats. Even tactful Elmar
Mammadyarov drags out the problem until final resolution of the
conflict. Baku doesn’t seem to need either Karabakh’s participation
in the agreement or close contacts between the sides.
And finally, it seems quite disinterested in settling the incidents,"
Amb. Kazimirov said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
