November 18, 2005 - 18:12 AMT
ICG Hopes for Karabakh Conflict Settlement in 2006
The International Crisis Group (ICG) has published two reports on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Ms. Sabina Freizer, Caucasus Project Director of the International Crisis Group stated, Trend new agency reports. "The first was published in September and is called 'Nagorno Karabakh viewing to the conflict from the ground and the second was published in October and is called 'Nagorno-Karabakh: A Plan for Peace'. We designed two separate reports and the intention was to publish them closely together. Two reports showed two different attitudes to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The first point predominantly focuses on the situation on the ground, how people critically live in Karabakh, how the displaced persons from Nagorno Karabakh live in Azerbaijan," she noted. In her words, the second report focuses on the negotiations. "To explain first how the negotiations have evolved it describes the process since the cease-fire and how especially the Prague process has evolved since 2004. In order to draft the reports the ICG carried out work in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Our understanding and our feeling is that there will be a progress in the talks, especially next year, 2006. And we are very much hopeful that the solution will be possibly found next year," Ms. Freizer said.