MEDVEDEV, ALIEV DISCUSS KARABAKH CONFLICT
Aysor
Nov 25 2009
Armenia
Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents had a detailed discussion on
negotiations for settlement of Karabakh conflict, Kremlin’s spokeswoman
Natalia Timakova said.
"Ilham Aliev has told President Medvedev a detailed resume of last
round of negotiations between Azerbaijani leader and Armenia’s
President Serge Sargsyan with participation of Minsk Group co-chairs."
She said Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev "has welcomed positive
move of negotiation process and assumed Moscow will continue contribute
to settling of Karabakh conflict."
Meanwhile, Russian experts and analysts try to predict Dmitry
Medvedev’s position at meeting with Azerbaijani counterpart.
"Aliev’s threats gave mediators a fright," said expert at the
International Relations and World economy Institute of Russian Academy
of Science, Alexander Krylov.
"I guess Medvedev tried to calm Aliev down and bring round the futility
of acting by force," he said pointing that it is not in Russia’s
interest if the region goes in war as in this case in acceptance
with the Madrid principles foreign peacekeepers would be deployed
including those from NATO states.