DAVID BABAYAN: KARABAKH REMAINS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE CONFLICT SETTLEMENT PROCESS
Karen Ghazaryan

"Radiolur"
18.01.2010 17:54

US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Robert Bradtke paid his second
visit to Nagorno Karabakh. Some analysts call attention to the fact
that the US Co-Chairs visited Artsakh alone, without his Russian and
French colleagues. Does this play any essential role in the Karabakh
settlement process?

Political scientist David Babayan is assured that, in general,
any of the co-chair countries is pursuing its own policy. However,
simultaneously they cooperate with each other. Therefore, according
to the political scientist, Robert Bradtke’s visit to Nagorno Karabakh
does not contain anything extraordinary.

"Such format is also acceptable. Any country is free to carry out
its own policy in different regions, and this should be viewed as a
normal phenomenon," he said.

Political scientist Sergey Shakaryants considers that Robert Bradtke’s
visit and statements that they have to keep the NKR authorities and
people informed of the process go in line with NKR President Bako
Sahakyan’s statement that the conflict cannot be solved without direct
talks between Stepanakert and Baku.

"Bradtke’s visit means that the Co-Chairs are at least trying to create
bases for the negotiations not to be restricted to Armenia-Azerbaijan
dialogue," the political scientist said.

"The visit once again proves that although Artsakh does not participate
in the talks directly, it remains an important factor in the process
of settlement of the conflict," David Babayan noted.