RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA’S AND SOUTH OSSETIA’S INDEPENDENCE TO BECOME EXTRA ATGUMENT IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT TALKS, ARMENIAN POLITICAL EXPERT THINKS

arminfo
2008-08-27 13:02:00

ArmInfo. Creation of military bases at the territory of Abkhazia
and South Ossetia will become the next step of Russia, the leader
of Globalization and Regional Cooperation Analytical Centre Stepan
Grigoryan told journalists today and added that Russia will make a
miliatry and strategic contract with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

He also said that recognition of independence of South Ossetia and
Abkhazia seems to be beneficial for Armenia and Nagornyy Karabakh
though, for instance, in Ossetia the situation differs from the
Karabakh conflict. ‘One should take into consideration that before
beginning of the last South Ossetian conflict many Georgians were
living in that republic and about 30% of the Ossets living in South
Ossetia did not want the republic to leave Georgia, whereas there is
no such problem in the NKR’, – he said.

‘Taking into consideration this and other differences among
the conflicts at the CIS territory, nevertheless we can say that
recognition of Abkhazia’s and South Ossetia’s independence by Russia
will become extra atgument in Karabakh settlement talks’,- Grigoryan
concluded.