THE FLOW OF PETRODOLLAR DOESN’T ALLOW AZERBAIJAN TO TAKE THE SITUATION ADEQUATELY

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.03.2008 GMT+04:00

The Karabakh Conflict will be resolved neither by the international
community, nor by the co-chairs, but by the help of the negotiations
between Azerbaijan and Karabakh, regardless all the resistance of
the official Baku.

Most probably the flow of petrodollar and the participation in
trans-European gas consortiums have seriously effected on Azerbaijan’s
ability of taking the situation adequately. For some reasons, Baku
has decided that the "irreplaceability" in energy resource supplies
may set the conditions over the world powers, and particularly over
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.

The resolution, approved by the UN General Assembly, according
to Azerbaijan may become a more effective tool for the regulation
of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, which is seen in annexation of
Nagorno-Karabakh by force, because there is no other way.

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The latest appeal of Azerbaijan to the OSCE with
the initiative of dissolution of the OSCE MG may become the beginning
of the attempt of the resolution of the Karabakh issue with force
implementation. In this appeal a part of the blame is put on the
co-chairs and on Mathew Bryza particularly, who says one thing in
Baku, another thing in Yerevan and a completely different thing
in Washington.

Naturally the USA is interested in the oil and gas that Baku
possesses. The history repeats itself: the same happened in 1918,
when the Soviet Russia, who needed the kerosene Baku had, gave
Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, without thinking that it was going
to become a delayed-action mine.

The Azeri political scientists have at once started to criticize and
accuse the Co-Chairs of inability of making decisions. According to
Zardushta Alizade, the OSCE Minsk Group has expired its resources
and is not capable of accomplishing its tasks, announced 1news.az.

"In fact, the OSCE Minsk Group’s responsibility is to convince
Azerbaijan to agree with the separation of Nagorno-Karabakh. Changing
the format of the OSCE MG will be possible only with the agreement of
both parties of conflict, and Armenia will not agree with it. OSCE MG
doesn’t have any particular alternative, at the same time, there is
not much depending on the Co-Chairs; they are simply mediators. In
this situation Azerbaijan only has to carry a policy, so that it is
considered to be an authority among more and more countries of the
international community.

This policy is lies in democratization of the state, establishment
of the political dialogue and contacts with the Armenian community
of Nagorno-Karabakh. We mustn’t tear away, but create economic ties
between these people and Azerbaijan," thinks Alizade.

Meanwhile the OSCE Co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier
(France), and Mathew Bryza (USA) came up with an announcement over the
results of the meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
Vartan Oskanyan on March 14 and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Azerbaijan Elmar Mamediarov on March 15. The announcement particularly
said: "After these meetings the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
declare, like they did before the voting of the resolution on "the
situation on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" in the UN General
Assembly, that France, Russia and the USA support the territorial
integrity of Nagorno-Karabakh and think, that the status of the
Nagorno-Karabakh is the topic of the negotiations between the parties.

The Co-chairs are convinced, that any peaceful regulation of the
conflict will need inevitable compromises. They emphasize the need of
the renewal of the negotiations after a pause during the period of
the presidential elections of Armenia. In this aspect they mention
with satisfaction the fact that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs
of Armenia and Azerbaijan confirmed the necessity of continuing the
negotiations between the countries.

In fact the Co-chairs didn’t say anything new. In any case the
Karabakh Conflict will be resolved neither by the international
community, nor by the co-chairs, but by the help of the negotiations
between Azerbaijan and Karabakh, regardless all the resistance of
the official Baku. And who said that in the case with Serbia the
territorial integrity of the country may be broken and in the case
of Nagorno-Karabakh it can’t?