YEREVAN AND BAKU STILL HOLD CONTRADICTORY POSITIONS ON KARABAKH

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.10.2009 15:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Karabakh conflict is unlikely to be resolved in the
near future, Laurence Broers, Caucasus Project manager at Conciliation
Resources, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. "Yerevan and Baku currently
hold contradictory positions on the issue. And that is not restricted
to the political elite only. The same problem is observed in both
countries’ societies. When I visit Azerbaijan and then Nagorno
Karabakh, I do see the conflicting views," said the expert.

In the meantime, he does not find Karabakh conflict to be in frozen
state. "Parties are currently elaborating mechanisms for solving those
problems. But considering the active developments in Armenian-Turkish
dialogue, I don’t think President Serzh Sargsyan will run the risk of
taking simultaneous steps in Armenian Turkish and Karabakh processes,"
Conciliation Resources representative stressed. He also didn’t rule out
the possibility that parties will manage to reach a general framework
agreement on Karabakh.