GORBACHEV WARNING ABOUT KARABAKH CONFLICT

The Messenger
March 9 2010
Georgia

The first and the last President of the Soviet Union is categorically
against any further military action being taken in Karabakh, warning
that bigger states might become involved in the conflict if this
happens.

Remembering the eighties of the last century, Mikhail Gorbachev
mentioned that while President he had got the Azeri leadership to
agree to grant Karabakh the status of an autonomous republic, but
unfortunately this did not happen, though there had been a possibility
to resolve this problem peacefully. He also stated that today it is
almost impossible to see Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.