GERMANY HOSTS CONFERENCE ON KARABAKH CONFLICT

news.az
Feb 4 2010
Azerbaijan

The coordination center of the German Azerbaijanis held a conference
on Karabakh conflict in Berlin.

During the conference attended by representatives of the Azerbaijani
embassy, chief executive of the center Samira Patzer-Ismaylova spoke
with a report "Hope for peace or political-geographic grips: Karabakh
conflict in 2010".

The orator noted that the Karabakh conflict is the most bloody
international conflict in the territory of the former USSR, that
Armenia occupied 20% of Azerbaijani lands and held ethnic cleansing
driving Azerbaijani population from these lands. 30,000 Azerbaijanis
died in the result of the conflict while 1,000,000 turned into refugees
and IDP most of whom live in hard conditions.

The reporter noted that the long activity of the OSCE Minsk Group
on the peaceful resolution of the conflict has been ineffective. She
also touched upon negotiations between the presidents of Azerbaijan
and Armenia on the resolution of the conflict, position of the
international community, Armenia’s nonconstructive position that
created a puppet regime in the occupied lands, Azerbaijan’s readiness
to grant the high status of autonomy to the Karabakh Armenians as
well as other conflicts in the South Caucasus.

Famous political scientist Haiko Langner spoke about the ways to
settle the Karabakh conflict and its influence on the prospects
of the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus. He noted that
39-year-old research worker of Bundestag office specializes on the
international relations, democratization in the post-Soviet republics,
migration and integration in the EU and last year he published the work
"Crisis area in the South Caucasus: Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia, South
Ossetia in conditions of legal and political and geographic tensions".