AZERI PEOPLE DOES NOT WANT WAR AGAINST ARMENIA
YEREVAN, APRIL 29. ARMINFO. “Azeri people does not want a war against
Armenia yet”, Head od conflict-science and migration department of
Baku Peace and Democracy Institution Arif Yunusov expressed such an
opinion in an interview to journalists in Yerevan. He participates at
“Caucasus 2004” International conference started today in Yerevan.
Yunusov noted that about 40% of Azeri people are the adherents and 30%
the opponents of the war, and the rest 30% are undecided. “When they
have their position, it will be clear whether the war is be or not. It
is most likely that we will have a Cyprus variant “neither war nor
peace”, he noted. At the same time, Yunusov did not excluded that some
political forces may use the Karabakh issue to achieve their own
purposes. He noted the activated from Feb 2005 skirmishes at
contact-line resulted to death of about 50 people of both sides.
“The main trouble of both Armenian and Azeri people is that every one
wants the “fair” peace but in its own good, which is, certainly does
not coincide with the other’s point of view. In fact, we have a choice
between bad and the worst peace, However, we have even not reached
it”, Yunusov noted. He also stressed the necessity to create the
atmosphere of confidence and to establish contacts between the
people. “Absence of contacts is a big shortcoming”, Yunusov
concluded. -r-