South Ossetian events proved that international community doesn't treat population of Karabakh, Abkhazia or Ossetia as people
The Georgian-Ossetian confrontation has already affected affect the Karabakh process, Arsen Melik-Shahnazarov, advisor to NKR Foreign Minister, said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.
"Nothing changed in outward appearance but, actually, an important event has taken place. The masks have been thrown off. It has became evident that the international community treats the people in Karabakh, Abkhazia or Ossetia as refuse that hampers its plans to seize Russia's oil and gas flows," he said.
A vivid parallel can be drawn between the events in Tskhinval in August 2008 and those in Stepanakert in February 1992, according to him.
"Just fancy Artsakh without its security belt. What could happen if Azeris remained in Khojalu, Shushi, Malibeyli and at the heights around the NKR capital. Unlike the Georgian authorities, who disguised the massacre with assurances of love and respect toward the 'Ossetian brothers', Azerbaijan has never stopped bellicose and racist propaganda," he said.
"The tragedy of South Ossetia proved the necessity of signing an agreement on non-use of force in the Karabakh conflict zone between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, following the basis document of the 1994 CSCE Budapest Summit, the 1995 Prague Statement of the OSCE CiO and other documents that have been shamefully ignored by the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group," Melik-Shahnazarov said.
Full text of the interview
"Nothing changed in outward appearance but, actually, an important event has taken place. The masks have been thrown off. It has became evident that the international community treats the people in Karabakh, Abkhazia or Ossetia as refuse that hampers its plans to seize Russia's oil and gas flows," he said.
A vivid parallel can be drawn between the events in Tskhinval in August 2008 and those in Stepanakert in February 1992, according to him.
"Just fancy Artsakh without its security belt. What could happen if Azeris remained in Khojalu, Shushi, Malibeyli and at the heights around the NKR capital. Unlike the Georgian authorities, who disguised the massacre with assurances of love and respect toward the 'Ossetian brothers', Azerbaijan has never stopped bellicose and racist propaganda," he said.
"The tragedy of South Ossetia proved the necessity of signing an agreement on non-use of force in the Karabakh conflict zone between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, following the basis document of the 1994 CSCE Budapest Summit, the 1995 Prague Statement of the OSCE CiO and other documents that have been shamefully ignored by the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group," Melik-Shahnazarov said.
