KARABAKH CONFLICT MUCH MORE GLARING THAN OTHERS
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
23.05.2009 10:58 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Between mid-1993 and May 1994, short-term cease-fire
was achieved 6 times, which was agreed by Baku and Stepanakert, under
Russia’s mediation. They were bilateral agreements, without Yerevan’s
participation, Vladimir Kazimirov, Deputy Chairman of the Russian
Diplomats’ Association, leader of the Russian mediation mission,
Plenipotentiary of the RF President on Nagorno Karabagh between April
1992 and September 1996, and a member of the OSCE Minsk Group from
Russia, told a news conference in Stepanakert.
According to him, an agreement on long-term cease-fire in the
Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict was achieved under Russia’s mediation,
the initial priority of which was in the soonest cessation of the
large-scale hostilities.
The diplomat excludes any military solution to the conflict. According
to him, the international community will negatively respond to
resumption of hostilities.
"Military activities will hardly resolve the issue: a new turn in a
madness spiral will pass, and the parties will sooner or later have to
negotiate, the losses being quite great. The approximate balance of
forces testifies that no blitzkrieg, taken place in Serbian Kraina,
can be applicable for this region," the diplomat noted, adding that
there would hardy be any great international powers fostering the
hostilities.
According to Vladimir Kazimirov, the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict
is much more glaring than any other.
"It has a great pre-history and is considerably burdened with it. So,
the goal in this case is more complicated than lifting mutual claims in
the conflict. The matter is not only to suppress the conflict, but also
to cease the century-old hostility and conflicts between the Armenians
and Azerbaijanis, to find a way to their historical conciliation."
The diplomat thinks that the region’s significance has considerably
increased for the last decades.
"The region is strategically significant and, at the same time,
highly explosive. These peculiarities of the region require extreme
caution in the actions," Kazimirov said.