NK CONFLICT ISN’T FROZEN – ICG PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR S CAUCASUS
Author: R.Abdullayev
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 29 2006
Sabine Freizer, Caucasus project director for the International Crisis
Group, said March 28 in Washington that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
is not a frozen conflict, Trend repots. “There are still people being
killed regularly,” she underlined,
As many as 19 people, including eight civilians, have been killed in
cease-fire violations over the past month, following inconclusive
peace talks in Rambouillet, France, she said. As many as 90 people
were killed in 2005.
She said renewed warfare does not seem imminent but could be triggered
by “an unraveling” along the tense, heavily armed confrontation line.
Many of the Armenian-occupied towns outside of Nagorno-Karabakh have
been destroyed and would require substantial rebuilding, Freizer said.
The region is especially sensitive because of its geography. Renewed
fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh potentially could involve Russia, Iran,
the Republic of Georgia and Turkey, Freizer said.