Negotiations on a peaceful settlement - work of professionals

PanARMENIAN.Net -  

On November 2 a roundtable "Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: creation of conditions for peace - the role of Russia" was organized at the media center of the "Izvestia" newspaper on the initiative of International Alert.

In the discussion was attended by Armenian and Azerbaijani experts and representatives of civil society.

"Negotiations on a peaceful settlement is the work of professionals. They, not abstract society,  take responsibility for the decisions taken," Dmitry Bruno , key expert at the Center for Analysis of terrorist threats writes in the article "Peace initiatives" of International Alert received by PanARMENIAN.Net  



"The dialogue only between Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives could not be viewed as full-fledged. Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh, the candidate of historical sciences Ruben Zargaryan openly declared that Nagorno-Karabakh is developing despite everything. It is absurd to exclude or ignore the opinion of the people living in Nagorno-Karabakh," the article says.  

 

"Geographically Karabakh is located in the region, where the interests of Russia, the USA, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are met. In these circumstances, various NGOs are filling the South Caucasus and offering their solution to the conflict resolution scenarios. Why do British public organizations become actively involved in the peace-making process? Perhaps their experience in dealing with such situations is invaluable, as, for example, with Irish and Scottish separatists.

The OSCE Minsk Group and experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh should look for the ways to resolve the Karabakh conflict, but certainly not the UK or Bulgaria. Now Western NGOs are trying "to scatter bread crumbs of "peace initiatives" like for Gretta and Hansel (from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale), which will attract NATO "peacekeepers" to the Caucasus revealed themselves in the Balkans,  and they are not interested in peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but the development of the bridgehead on the border with Iran, " the article says.