KAZAKHSTAN COULD BECOME QUITE EFFICIENT MEDIATOR IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT: RUSSIAN EXPERT

ArmInfo
2010-02-18 11:02:00

ArmInfo. Kazakhstan could become a quite efficient mediator in
settlement of the Karabakh problem, Doctor of Historical Sciences,
leading research officer of the Institute for World Economics and
International Management (IWIM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Krylov told Day.Az.

"I think that Kazakhstan has such ambitions, first of all, because
Nursultan Nazarbayev has been well acquainted with the Karabakh
problem even since the USSR. The negotiation process on the Karabakh
conflict has much in common with what happens in Turkey-Armenia
relations. Although there is the Minsk Group and the Madrid principles,
which seem to be under continuous coordination, it is unnecessary to
speak about a real progress in the problem solution.

Actually, the parties keep on insisting on capitulation of its partner
in negotiations", the expert said. According to him, reduction of the
degree of the parties’ propagandistic activity, termination of the
information war and beginning of a real dialogue between Azerbaijan
and Armenia on the problem solution would be a great achievement of
Kazakhstan as OSCE chairman. Compromise solution of the problem is
impossible without mutual concessions, and Kazakhstan will turn out to
be a more efficient mediator than the Minsk Group and all the previous
mediators if it can inform the both parties of the understanding of
this seemingly simple truth.