Azeri attack and OSCE monitoring: What's next?

April 30, 2012 - 21:41 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, on April 30, OSCE representatives personally familiarized themselves with the consequences of Azeri shelling of Armenian village of Doveg in Tavush province. The settlement was targeted by Azerbaijani forces on April 25, with a kindergarten shelled. The OSCE took photos and videos of consequences of the ceasefire violation.

Field Assistants of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Hristo Hristov and Irjie Aberle also went to the site of murder of three Armenian soldiers. Afterwards, in the military prison of Berd town they carefully examined the car shelled, by which the unarmed soldiers in civilian clothes were returning to the military unit.

Prior to this, the OSCE mission conducted monitoring at contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces, with no incidents recorded; the same contact line where the Azerbaijani side repeatedly violated the ceasefire by targeting the Armenian positions. Fortunately, this time, the violation claimed no lives.

Monitoring was held… What next? This will once again mark the start of endless talks stressing the “need to maintain ceasefire.” Talks with no specific addressee? Continued calls for peaceful resolution of the problem? Mediators and international community will again turn a blind eye to acquisition of countless weapons by Azerbaijan? Will Azerbaijan continue its subversive acts? Murder of Armenian soldiers by Azeri subversives will keep bearing a systematic character? Kindergartens and schools will be shelled again?

Or the international community will find enough courage to name the specific addressee, urging it to lay down arms? Will it finally take effective measures? Will it call for conducting true negotiations, instead of concealing them at the last moment, as the Azerbaijani side is used to do?

Time will show…