NEGOTIATIONS ON A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT – WORK OF PROFESSIONALS

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.11.2009 15:53 GMT+04:00

On November 2 a roundtable "Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: creation of
conditions for peace – the role of Russia" was organized at the media
center of the "Izvestia" newspaper on the initiative of International
Alert.

In the discussion was attended by Armenian and Azerbaijani experts
and representatives of civil society.

"Negotiations on a peaceful settlement is the work of professionals.

They, not abstract society, take responsibility for the decisions
taken," Dmitry Bruno , key expert at the Center for Analysis of
terrorist threats writes in the article "Peace initiatives" of
International Alert received by PanARMENIAN.Net.

"The dialogue only between Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives
could not be viewed as full-fledged. Adviser to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh, the candidate of historical
sciences Ruben Zargaryan openly declared that Nagorno-Karabakh is
developing despite everything. It is absurd to exclude or ignore the
opinion of the people living in Nagorno-Karabakh," the article says.

"Geographically Karabakh is located in the region, where the interests
of Russia, the USA, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are met. In these
circumstances, various NGOs are filling the South Caucasus and offering
their solution to the conflict resolution scenarios. Why do British
public organizations become actively involved in the peace-making
process? Perhaps their experience in dealing with such situations is
invaluable, as, for example, with Irish and Scottish separatists.

The OSCE Minsk Group and experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan and
Nagorno-Karabakh should look for the ways to resolve the Karabakh
conflict, but certainly not the UK or Bulgaria. Now Western NGOs are
trying "to scatter bread crumbs of "peace initiatives" like for Gretta
and Hansel (from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale), which will attract
NATO "peacekeepers" to the Caucasus revealed themselves in the Balkans,
and they are not interested in peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
but the development of the bridgehead on the border with Iran,
" the article says.
From: Baghdasarian