AZERBAIJANI POLITICAL EXPERT OUTLINES THREE SCENARIOS OF EVENTS AFTER TURKISH PM ERDOGAN’S U.S. VISIT

Today
April 7 2010
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani political expert Rasim Musabayov says there are three
scenarios of events that may happen following Turkish PM Erdogan’s
trip to the U.S.

"One of them is that Turkey and Armenia will announce that they will
make efforts to ratify the protocols with Obama limiting himself
to uttering "genocide" in Armenian language which will not please
Armenians as they want legal wording," the expert said.

"Another scenario is that Obama can say to Serzh Sargsyan that "it is
necessary to open borders and there are already proposals on Karabakh
conflict on the table. So, you should accept them so that to move the
Armenian-Turkish process and settlement of the Azerbaijani-Armenian
conflict forward."

"Well, the third version is that Obama will not get anything from
Turkey in matters relating to Iran, the Palestinian issue, the Afghan
problem, and the U.S. will continue to put pressure on Turkey,"
Musabayov said.

"I think it is likely we will witness the second scenario in which
Obama will try to get Armenia to adopt the updated version of the
Madrid principles that co-chairs brought to the region recently,
but at the same time insist on ratification of the Armenian-Turkish
protocols," the expert noted.