MOSCOW AVOIDS KARABAKH ISSUE FOR TOLERABLE RELATIONS WITH AZERBAIJAN: RUSSIAN POLITICAL EXPERT

arminfo
2008-05-23 15:44:00

ArmInfo. Russia has displayed a special attitude to Karabakh conflict
since the moment when the ex-president Vladimir Putin declare the
so-called universal approach i.e. application of Kosovo precedent in
the post-Soviet area and Nagorny Karabakh proved outside it. Head
of Inter-ethnic Relations Department of the Russian Institute for
Political and Military Analysis Sergey Markedonov says in an interview
with ArmInfo.

He stressed that Karabakh problem was not included in the March
statement of State Duma 2008 either. ‘The Karabakh conflict is avoided
since official Moscow believes the relations with Azerbaijan not as
bad as with Georgia.

So, Moscow has not washed up Moldova and Azerbaijan so far unlike
Georgia’, he said.