June 24, 2006 - 16:30 AMT
If Peacekeeping Forces Appear in Karabakh, They Will End Like Those in Kosovo
If peacekeeping forces appear in Nagorno Karabakh, they will end like those in Kosovo, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations Victor Nadein-Rayevsky stated in an interview with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, if the situation develops this way, the genocide of the Armenian population of the NKR will be protracted, however the outcome will be the same as that in Kosovo.

«There is no single Serb in Kosovo, Serb monuments are destroyed. This proposal is favorable to one party of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict - Azerbaijan, while the initiators, i.e. the US and EU, need the peacekeepers only to guard the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. However, the major goal of all interested parties is to push Russia out of the region," Nadein-Rayevsky remarked.

At that he underscored that the international law is a system of mutual concessions and keeping parity. «If return of Azeri refugees is concerned, why are Armenian refugees from Baku, Kirovabad and other Azeri towns denied this right? However, the most important thing is that all parties should agree to sending peacekeepers to the region and this is impossible,» he said.