news.am, Armenia
Nov 22 2009
Euronews: Last chance talks over Karabakh
18:45 / 11/22/2009The private meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani
Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev has finished in Munich,
Germany. Reliable sources report that the Armenian and Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministers are now holding a meeting with the participation of
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen.
World mass media have provided coverage of the meeting in the context
of the Azeri leader’s strongly worded statements.
Specifically, the Euronews TV channel entitled its report as `Last
chance talks over Karabakh’
The source reports that `the Moscow mediated truce deal signed last
year between Azerbaijan and Armenia is on the verge of unravelling if
talks today do not produce a result.’
Referring to the Azeri leader, Euronews reports that `President Ilham
Aliyev has already warned his country would be prepared to take the
region back by force.’
Yesterday, Sergey Markedonov, expert at the Russian State Humanitarian
University, commented on the Azeri leader’s statement. He said that
hostilities in the conflict zone may be resumed only if `someone loses
his rational faculty.’ According to him, resuming hostilities in the
conflict zone will be a unhappy enterprise the Azerbaijani leader is
unlikely to resort to ` in contrast to his Georgian counterpart,
Aliyev is a rational politician. `One thing is talking about war, but
quite another thing is getting corpses,’ Markedonov said. He added
that Aliyev will continue playing with this argument. The expert
pointed out a balanced situation round Nagorno-Karabakh ` neither the
West nor Russia is supporting either side. Marekedonov said that
Aliyev’s rhetoric is most likely a mere diplomatic move.