MOSCOW: NAGORNO KARABAKH A DIFFERENT STORY

Regnum
Sept 4 2008
Russia

Moscow draws no parallels between the situation around Abkhazia and
South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov stated at a press conference
on Sep 4 following meeting of foreign ministers of Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) member countries.

Lavrov said that the regime of Saakashvili in the cases of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia led to destruction of all negotiation formats and other
mechanisms of the conflicts’ settlement; it consistently aggravated
the situation in the conflict zones, trying to affect the situation
in security zones created in early 1990s.

Worthy of note, the truce in Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone is
maintained exclusively by the balance of powers between the conflicting
sides. There are no third countries’ peacekeeping contingents in the
Karabakh conflict region.