Expert: Bryza openly supports Azerbaijan

PanARMENIAN.Net - OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza's recent interview with BBC proved that he is a biased mediator, who openly supports Azerbaijan in Karabakh talks, an Armenian expert said.



"Moreover, he is not aware of the conflict's history and hardly understands the meaning of his utterance that 'juridically, Nagorno Karabakh is a part of Azerbaijan.' This interview is crude and provocative," Eduard Abrahamyan , expert at Mitq analytical center, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.



"The point is that legal borders between the states are determined neither by international structures nor by intermediaries but by special governmental commissions. As to the Armenian-Azeri border, it was not demarked after the USSR decline. Furthermore, Azerbaijan is the legal successor of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic which was not even recognized as a state. The Azeri SSR has nothing to do with the process," he said.



There is no law or juridical viewpoint that could influence the Karabakh problem resolution, according to him.



"This is a regular invention of the U.S. mediator who can't enjoy Armenia's confidence any more. The Armenian lobby in the U.S. should urge dismissal of dubious officials like Bryza while the Armenian government should redouble efforts for international recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic," Abrahamyan said.