OSCE MG Co-Chair States Interested in Military and Political Stability in Region

PanARMENIAN.Net - Self-withdrawal of Co-Chairs of the OSCE MG for Karabakh settlement does not mean withdrawal of the international community from regional processes, political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, OSCE MG Co-Chair states are even more interested in sustaining the military and political stability in Transcaucasia than two years ago.



«The matter, of course, concerns the importance of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for Europe and latest agreements on Kazakhstan linking up with the pipeline. An agreement with Israel on oil transit into the Pacific region bypassing Iran is at the stage of signing. All those projects, promising large political and financial revenues, can be buried at once and for a long time in case hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan resume,» he remarked. In his opinion, against that background the seeming illogical statement of the co-chairs has a simple explanation. «Azerbaijan is more that integrated in all those projects and its leaders are the least interested in a war,» he remarked.



He also underscored that under these conditions there is no need for mediation. «Let Baku itself find cause for not resuming war. And the consumers of its oil will threaten from time to time - do not you dare! And it will be done for appearance, as Azerbaijan knows its possibilities very well. Each such «do not you dare» will find its grateful listeners and executors in Azerbaijan,» Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan said.