KARABAKH SETTLEMENT SHOVED BACK BY POLITICAL AND PROPAGANDISTIC "FENCING" OF PARTIES

PanARMENIAN.Net - The most difficult problem of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was shoved back by the political and propagandistic "fencing" of the parties over it, says Delight in Propaganda or Serious Talks article of former Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov. As noted by V. Kazimirov, Baku works for switching the attention from the key problem of the entire conflict, its cause - the status of Nagorno Karabakh - to one of the grave consequences of armed conflict, "the occupation of a number of regions of Azerbaijan." Few people in the world and even in Europe know how the Nagorno Karabakh conflict evolved, who tried to solve it by force and kept doing it for several years, that besides "the occupation" it caused thousands of victims, major destruction and mass departure of residents. Having had military success then, Armenians excessively calmed down and even underestimated those moves, the article notes. However now demanding involve NK in the negotiation process as it was before Yerevan made Baku to turn off its UN initiative and be content with a trip of the OSCE mission to check whether there was a policy of settling "the occupied regions" with Armenians. OSCE structures are now considering the returns of the check-up. January 25 the PACE in Strasbourg passed a resolution and recommendations based on the report of British Terry Davis and David Atkinson over the NK, which caused Baku exultation and Yerevan internal confusion, which developed into internal confrontation. "Occupation and resettlers suffering for a long time" were suddenly discovered. But how it appeared, who is to blame they do not know. It seems the PACE does not know who continues the hereditary staking on force, at full violates the commitment to the Council of Europe to solve the conflict via peaceful means exclusively… PACE participants also never thought that due to a range of positions they are in opposition with the UN SC, OSCE, engaged in the settlement in Karabakh. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs like those organizations never denied a status of a party to the conflict to NK - except for Azerbaijan and the Organization of Islamic Conferences. However now the PACE plays the same game as them. The PACE call to Baku to begin contacts with NK representatives is formulated at an amateur level - just for discussing its status. It is clear that the Karabakh substance is very sensitive both for Armenians and Azeris - one should quarrel with none. "However is the posture of "an ostrich" worthy Russia, which has played a key role in the stopping of the bloodshed? After all there is a pivot that is beneficial to hold by and it is true. Let those, who are not in harmony with truths contradict - and not only to Russia, but the truths. It is not a sin to use a new secret weapon in diplomacy - frankness," Vladimir Kazimirov notes. "Now we expect new from the OSCE mission, which has examined the settlement of the occupied regions of Azerbaijan. Just like propaganda hampers real politics, the passions around the mission report can complicate the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Prague March 2. Although it seemed one should guard such meetings, where something can be agreed upon. And then it may happen that a bridge from periodical consultations to real and intensive talks is laid. One can fall into empty verbal squabble later - provided that these do not damage the serious talks," the article says.