KARABAKH STATUS SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY PEOPLE VIA NEGOTIATIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Lord forbid if I were to decide whether Nagorno Karabakh should be returned to Azerbaijan or not", President of Strategy Saint Petersburg Center for Humanitarian and Political Studies Alexander Sungurovstated, IA Regnum reported. In his words, the issue should be decided by the people via negotiations. It refers to Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia. "I suppose that that the way-out of such situation should be found via new international non-trivial approaches and variants. The situation can be frozen or the conflicting parties can agree on not contesting the territory, provide self-government for it and secure interaction in the process of control. The postponement of the discussion over the issue for 10,20 or 30 years can also be a way-out. In Europe, for example, there were disputes over Innsbruck One party claimed it is Italian, the other said it is Austrian. Now they say, we are all residents of Europe, we are Europeans. It is clear that in the Caucasus the process will last long but there are transitional variants with using the European experience. Being members of the Council of Europe let us seek for a way-out here", the analyst stated.