LEADER OF UKRAINIAN POPULAR PARTY: "THE TALKS BETWEEN THE PRESIDENTS OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN BY DMITRI MEDVEDEV’S INITIATIVE MAY END IN A NEW KARABAKH CONFLICT"

Today.Az
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Nov 3 2008
Azerbaijan

Russia attempts to destabilize the situation in Nagorno Karabakh for
restoration of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in order to seize
a full control over the oil production in the Caspian Azeri Sector,
said one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Popular Party Stepan Khmara
commenting on the declaration on the peaceful resolution of the
Karabakh conflict signed yesterday by the Presidents of Russia,
Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Khmara considers that Russia tries to completely frustrate the supplies
of the Caspian oil to Europe by the pipelines, that bypass Russia,
including BTC and Baku-Supsa.

According to Khmara, the peaceful talks between the Presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan by the initiative of Russian President Dmitri
Medvedev may end in a new Karabakh conflict as the unstable Caucasus
guarantees that oil will be transported to Europe only via Russia.

"Russia is going to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia by the
Georgian model", warns the head of the Ukrainian Popular party. He
said one of the reasons of Moscow’s aggression against Georgia was
blocking the supplies of Caspian oil vie BTC pipeline.

Moreover, Khmara recommended to Yerevan and Baku "to analyze
the Georgian experience in details" for "the Kremlin is rather
interested in the further expansion in the Caucasus even by way
of defrosting ethnic conflicts than the complete resolution of the
Karabakh conflict".