ICG: small issues in Karabakh process are politically potentially explosive

PanARMENIAN.Net - Less than a month ago, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev expressed readiness to speed up the process of reaching agreement on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during a meeting hosed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“The two have basically agreed at various times what the basic outline of the resolution of the conflict would be,” Lawrence Sheets, an analyst and expert on the Caucasus region for the International Crisis Group, told Vatican Radio.

“It’s incredible because the basic framework – the basic things that the two sides seem to agree one – they same to be in relative commonality,” he said. “But when you start discussing these smaller issues, which are politically potentially explosive or dangerous to the administrations in control…it becomes very difficult.”

During their January 23 meeting in Sochi, the leaders of the two countries agreed to continue efforts to bring positions closer.