STATUS-QUO PRESERVING IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT IS EXPEDIENT FOR THE AUTHORITIES OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN, AZERBAIJANI WRITER THINKS

2007-12-17 17:52:00

ArmInfo. Status-quo preserving in the matter of Karabakh settlement is
expedient for the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani
writer Seymur Bayjan said. He arrived in Yerevan to take part in
an event ‘Azerbaijani Days’ held at Yerevan ‘Mkhitar Sebastatsi’
educational centre.

Asked by Arminfo correspondent if the event will promote establishing
relations, Seymur Beyjan replied: ‘Let my friends not take offence,
but I am very pessimistic in this matter. I have always said that
any thrown shell may destroy what was achieved, everything depends on
the authorities of both states’. He also added that earlier those who
visited Armenia were treated very radically, were insulted and called
betrayers. ‘But it was not so after an official visit of Azerbaijani
ambassador in Russia to Karabakh. That was a state order’, – he
added. He also said that status-quo preserving in Karabakh settlement
is expedient for the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan, since
they may manipulate with the problem in this way. ‘Did not you notice
that every time before the election shooting starts at the contact
line. The authorities frighten the people that war may start, that is
‘war will start if we leave’. When meeting representatives of both
states say about their desire to settle the conflict, but when they
return home they say quite the contrary’, – Beyjan concluded.