EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT PROGRESS IN SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT, BUT NOBODY SEES IT: POLITICAL EXPERT

Today
Dec 2 2009
Azerbaijan

"I do not think that return of seven Armenian-occupied regions is
advantageous for Azerbaijan," Azerbaijani political analyst Araz
Alizade said.

"Everyone says that we are moving forward in the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict. In this regard I remember an anecdote in which the
lieutenant agrees that the crocodile is a flying weapon just because
the major said it, although the lieutenant had never seen a flying
crocodile," the analyst said.

"This is the same case also in resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. Everyone talks about progress in settlement of the conflict,
but nobody see it. Besides, I do not know such cases in the world
practice when territories captured by war were returned through
peaceful negotiations."

With regard to media reports which predicted Armenia’s liberation of
the seven occupied regions of Azerbaijan soon, the expert noted that
"I do not think that development of events this way is advantageous
to Azerbaijan."

"First, no one is going to return the seven regions (I do not
think Armenia would return Lachin region to Azerbaijan). Secondly,
once Armenia withdraws from occupied lands, Azerbaijan will face a
strong pressure from the international community to make significant
concessions," Alizade said.