ARMENIA SHOULD GAIN CONTROL OVER NAGORNO KARABAKH, NATO PA HEAD CONSIDERS
"Europeans, Americans and Russians have to jointly find a compromise, in compliance with which Armenia would gain temporary control over Karabakh, and further the Karabakh status would be determined via a referendum - within five of ten years," head of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Pierre Lellouche and former Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio write in Putin and the Phantoms of the Empire joint article in Le Figaro today's issue. In the article the relations between the EU and Russia against the background of the Ukrainian events. "The success of the democracy in Ukraine should underlie the common strategy of our democratic countries. This strategy aims at putting an end to the "frozen" conflicts at the threshold of Europe," the article authors consider.
In the future the fate of the peoples, who live at the threshold of Russia and the EU, will depend on whether the "Russian neo-imperialism or the EU is able to establish "pax europa". To that end "the Western democracies" in the opinion of the authors should come out with initiatives to solve the conflicts in the post-Soviet space. "The frozen conflicts" in Georgian provinces - South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as in Pridnestrovie have much in common. "The conflict, in which Armenia and Azerbaijan collided in Nagorno Karabakh, is more difficult and has a different nature than the conflicts in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Pridnestrovie, Ana Palacio and Pierre Lellouche write. "As of Turkey, it has got the opportunity to show that the country wishes to enter the European family: for that the border with Armenia should be opened and it would facilitate the life in the republic, which has been blockaded for already 15 years. Finally, in exchange for cooperation with Azerbaijan in the conflict, the West has to arrange close partnership ties with the country," the authors sum up. Both authors had visited Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh in late October this year as part of the delegation of the German Marshall US fund. They came for the participation of Nagorno Karabakh in the conflict settlement talks.
In the future the fate of the peoples, who live at the threshold of Russia and the EU, will depend on whether the "Russian neo-imperialism or the EU is able to establish "pax europa". To that end "the Western democracies" in the opinion of the authors should come out with initiatives to solve the conflicts in the post-Soviet space. "The frozen conflicts" in Georgian provinces - South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as in Pridnestrovie have much in common. "The conflict, in which Armenia and Azerbaijan collided in Nagorno Karabakh, is more difficult and has a different nature than the conflicts in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Pridnestrovie, Ana Palacio and Pierre Lellouche write. "As of Turkey, it has got the opportunity to show that the country wishes to enter the European family: for that the border with Armenia should be opened and it would facilitate the life in the republic, which has been blockaded for already 15 years. Finally, in exchange for cooperation with Azerbaijan in the conflict, the West has to arrange close partnership ties with the country," the authors sum up. Both authors had visited Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh in late October this year as part of the delegation of the German Marshall US fund. They came for the participation of Nagorno Karabakh in the conflict settlement talks.
