Karabakh: Interests of Parties to Conflict Observed «as Luck Would Have It»

PanARMENIAN.Net - The role of the OSCE in settlement of the conflict is not that much self-dependent, as it seems to Azerbaijan. Peculiarities of contemporary policy in the globalization age are the way, that when deciding core matters of world policy - and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict refers to those - some consensus is reached at the EU or UN, Chair of the Standing Commission for Defense and Security of the Supreme Council of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in 1992-1995, Chairman of Tradition NGO Valery Balayan stated in an interview with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, consensus is being reached mainly within the interests of large countries, who fund activities of those organizations, while interests of the parties to conflict are taken into account «as luck would have it.» This was true also at division of Yugoslavia, it is observed now when solving the Kosovo issue and that of Iraq. Thus, those who insist on it are advised to read Krylov's fable or recall arithmetic rule on changing the order of items,» Balayan underscored.



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