STEPAN GRIGORYAN: RUSSIA CAN CEDE A PART OF ITS TERRITORY TO AZERBAIJAN, WITHOUT USING NKR AS TOKEN COIN

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.10.2008 16:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The events that followed Kosovo’s proclamation of
independence and deployment of EU peacekeepers in Georgia will affect
the Nagorno Karabakh settlement process, an Armenian expert said.

"The latest hearing in the NKR parliament revealed the whole range
of opinions on the conflict. I don’t think that such an event would
be possible in the Armenian or Azeri parliament, due to the lack of
pluralism of opinions," Stepan Grigoryan, head of analytical center
of globalization studies, said during a round-table discussion today.

The OSCE MNG format is jeopardized due to global processes, relating
to the U.S. and Russia, according to him.

"Russia attempts to speed up the Karabakh process artificially, what
is to some extent conditioned by the impending presidential election
I the United States. As to unwillingness to spoil relations with
Azerbaijan, Russia could cede some 5 thousand km2 to this country,
without using NKR as a token coin," Grigoryan said.