Implementation of double standards is a prerogative of power-holders

PanARMENIAN.Net - The term «precedent» strongly entered into the everyday life of diplomats and politicians shortly after the recognition of Kosovo's independence and, to all appearances, it will still be used both to the point and beside it. In this case, the contrast between Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and earlier also Kosovo is far-fetched. The reason is quite banal - Russia can introduce its forces neither into Nagorno-Karabakh nor into Transnistria for various reasons. A great role is played here by the unwillingness of the people of NKR and PMR to be under foreign protectorate, be it in the first case Armenia and in the second - Moldova. However, Russia obviously enjoyed intervention in world politics and came to a decision that she can dictate her will. By the way she is not alone in this respect - the USA gives an equal treatment too. The only point where the world powers share similar views is their «refusal of precedent», which has existed at all times, including the 21st century. One could say that the first precedent after the World War II was the violation of Yalta decisions on the immovability of the borders, which in 1991 in no way fitted into the model of 1945. Delineated zonal influences and freaks of the post-war Europe borders had nothing in common with the actual state of affairs. They only fixed the victory over Germany. The same can be said about the inner borders of the USSR; being fixed imperiously, they caused many conflicts in the post-Soviet territory. And if so, the statements of the RF Foreign Minister and the US Secretary of State are nothing but a sly move and hypocrisy.

"Russia will actively promote a peaceful solution to all the conflicts in the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States], respecting International Law, UN Charter principles and existing agreements, in search of harmony between conflicting states. We will pursue our mediatory mission in peace talks, including over Transnistria and Nagorno Karabakh. However, the South Ossetian crisis does not set a precedent for them," declared Lavrov at the Council of Federation, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament on Thursday.

Most likely Lavrov's statements were dictated by the latest visit of the Azerbaijani President to Moscow. And though Russia will hardly make a curtsey to Baku, additional support should never be refused, especially when Azerbaijan turns its problems into trumps for trade. According to Russian analysts Baku gives Americans a cold reception to make them understand that the price for Baku's benevolence has sharply risen. It carefully follows the warming process between Armenia and Turkey, and welcomes the attempt of Turkey to fill up the futility that the OSCE Minsk Group has been trying to embody in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation. Besides, Baku knows very well that its standpoint of assessing the situation is extremely interesting to Moscow.

"Azerbaijan is one of the major factors of instability in the region, and no one relies on more than the neutrality of Baku. At the same time everyone, and first of Baku, knows that it can conduct a long-term and successful trade through neutrality," gzt.ru reports.

Meanwhile, according to William J. Burns, US Undersecretary for Political Affairs, the United States is committed to redoubling efforts to ease tensions and resolve conflicts throughout the region. "The U.S. Government will do all it can to encourage the parties to show greater flexibility and creativity in their negotiations. We will do everything possible to promote a just and lasting settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," noted the US Undersecretary, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations informs.

The only positive side in current proceedings is the fact that Nagorno-Karabakh people, as we have repeatedly mentioned, are in no need of «fair» regulation.