news.am, Armenia
March 13 2010

Armenian-Azerbaijani societies’ ties to assist Karabakh conflict
settlement: Sammut

15:23 / 03/13/2010Azerbaijani opposition is splitted and weak, which
negatively affects the domestic situation in the country, Executive
Director of London Information Network on Conflicts and State-building
(LINKS) Dennis Sammut said at the 73rd NATO PA Rose-Roth seminar in
Yerevan, speaking of the Political developments in Azerbaijan.

He emphasized that all the three countries in South Caucasus have a
long and complicated way in the process of democratization. `Shortly,
all three states will have a chance to see EU’s increasing role in the
process,’ Sammut stated.

According to him, South Caucasian countries will be unable to take an
independent line on the way to democracy and here Europe can aid them.
Touching upon the conflict resolution, particularly Karabakh issue,
Sammut emphasized the necessity of the intensification of ties between
Armenian and Azerbaijani civil societies. He maintained that it will
greatly contribute to the conlifct settlement.

Executive Director of the International Center for Human Development
(ICHD) Tevan Poghosyan pronounced for the issue.

L.A.