DIPLOMAT HAVING SUCCESSFUL MISSION IN KOSOVO ASSUMES NKR CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

Panorama.am
17:02 12/08/2009

It has been already announced that the OSCE Minsk Group American
co-chair Matthew Bryza will be replaced by Tina Kaidanow. It is
believed that Bryza is going to take the office of the U.S. Ambassador
to Azerbaijan.

Analysts and experts say there are two interesting elements in
T. Kaidanow’s appointment as the U.S. co-chair.

First, she is the only female co-chair in the Minsk Group, and second,
which is the most important one, her activities held in the recent
years.

Tina Kaidanow has carried out U.S. mission in Kosovo for two years. In
2008, when United States recognized the independence of Kosovo,
Mrs. Kaidanow took U.S. Ambassador’s office in Kosovo. Earlier,
Kaidanow worked as deputy assistant of U.S. mission in Sarajevo for
3 years.

It’s worth mentioning that Kaidanow took Kosovo mission office before
the declaration of independence of that region. Some experts say it
was due to her that the conflict has been settled in favor of Albans.

Is it by chance appointing Kaidanow as mediator in Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict? Experts believe this is not by chance. Political experts try
to hold parallels between Karabakh and Kosovo conflicts. Both nations
have been fighting for their independence based on the right of self
determination. Albanian people managed to reach their independence due
to the active participation of the U.S., which has not been approved
by Russia, country which recognized independence of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia departed from Georgia.