AZERI ANALYST CRITICIZES ARMENIA PROPOSAL

The Messenger
Nov 27 2008
Georgia

Azeri political analyst Vapa Guluzade has announced that some time ago
the Armenian President organized a meeting with 50 representatives of
political parties, asking them if it would be acceptable to return
five Azeri regions occupied by Armenia if Azerbaijan recognized
Karabakh’s independence. Guluzade says this is a Russian initiative,
and that Russia wants to deploy Russian peacekeepers in the conflict
zone in return for restoring these occupied regions to Azerbaijan. As
a result Armenia will be able to restore diplomatic relations with
Turkey and Azerbaijan and open its borders with these countries.

The analyst states that for Azerbaijan this option is absolutely
unacceptable. He thinks that all negotiations over Karabakh are not
genuine and it is useless to carry out any kind of speculation over
the borders of Azerbaijan as there are no new suggestions to resolve
the problem.