ROUNDTABLE "FUTURE OF KARABAKH – FUTURE OF PEACEMAKING INITIATIVES"

APA
July 14 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova – APA. Strategic Research Center under the
President of Azerbaijan organized a roundtable "Future of Karabakh –
future of peacemaking initiatives", APA reports. The roundtable was
organized on the initiative of the Strategic Research Center and
British International Alert organization to discuss the last phase
of the negotiations over the peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh
conflict. Chief of the center’s foreign policy research department
Gulshen Pashayeva said very interesting events took place in the region
over the past year, including Georgia-Russia conflict and actions
taken toward the normalization of the Turkey-Armenia relations. She
said these events had an impact on whole region, concretely on
the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict and created encouraging
dynamics in the negotiations. She said the round table aimed to search
methods of use of people’s diplomacy if the negotiations were fruitful.

Director of International Alert Asian and Eurasian Programs Phil
Champaign informed the participants about his organization. "South
Caucasus is very important region for us. We hope for a leap in the
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict".

The event attended by the Azerbaijani and Russian political scientists
was continued behind the closed doors.