OSCE MG targets people after failing with politicians?

March 6, 2012 - 21:24 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Completing subsequent tour over Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs came up with another statement today. Though nothing new was remarkable in this context, the statements voiced in Baku suggest that greater attention is attached to social-humanitarian rather than political aspect of the negotiation process.

During meetings with Presidents of Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) discussed humanitarian issues, particularly related to establishment of contacts between the two nations, which “may foster development of mutual understanding.”

Robert Bradtke noted that mediators have “started establishing humanitarian ties between the nations. This is only the beginning. Cooperation in this stage inspires hope.”

Noting that OSCE MG co-chairs visited the border between Artsakh and Azerbaijan last December, Bradtke said, “people residing on both sides encounter similar problems, such as water supply and energy problems. We aim to build cooperation between people facing the same problems.”

However, the question is that problems of crucial importance such as water supply, energy issues and many others are outcomes of the conflict itself. The co-chairs seriously believe, that those problems may become a starting point of reconciliation between peoples of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, the latter having massacred Armenians in Baku, Sumgait, Kirovabad and Karabakh itself. Is it possible to make Artsakh people forget about the horror of war and leave ancestral lands? Is it possible to force Azeris to abandon attempts to conquer lands that were once presented to them?

Nagorno Karabakh talks seem to have entered a deadlock, especially given the fact that Baku occasionally tries to prevent achievement of any progress, not wanting to abandon aggressive statements that help Azeri authorities to draw attention away from domestic problems, instead sowing hatred against Armenians.

Impression is created that OSCE Minsk Group failing to reconcile Armenian, Azerbaijani and Karabakh leaders, has resolved to target the nation, that may force its authorities to settle the conflict… What if it doesn’t?