VLADIMIR KAZIMIROV: NONE OF PARTIES TO KARABAKH CONFLICT CAN AVOID COMPROMISES

ArmInfo
2009-05-15 14:03:00

ArmInfo. One can humanly understand the expectations of a magic turn of
events from every meeting, but this is quite naive from the political
viewpoint. One should not study the Karabakh conflict settlement in
the context of events. It is necessary to view it in the process,
the former co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Vladimir Kazimirov said at
a press conference at the ‘Novosti’ Press Center in Yerevan, Friday.

Ambassador Kazimirov highlighted that the settlement of the given
issue is a long way requiring patience, firmness and readiness of
the parties. ready?

The leaderships of the parties evidently fail to prepare their
publics for compromises>, he said. V. Kazimirov is sure that it is
necessary to think of compromises since it is simply naive to think
that one of the parties will get everything it demands. ‘They should
compromise. There is no other way’, he said.

Nevertheless, V. Kazimirov regrets that Nagorny Karabakh is not
involved in the negotiation process. ‘Russia has always proved that
there are three parties to the conflict. Although the military conflict
is between two parties, they are three from the political point of
view. Yerevan and Stepanakert had close but not similar approaches’,
Kazimirov said. Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have already met
4 times and are going to have the 5th meeting, which is positive, he
said and highlighted that the negotiations are held in the spirit of
‘nothing is coordinated until everything is coordinated’.