All the OSCE MG statements are nothing but an empty set of phrases addressed to nowhere

PanARMENIAN.Net - Naturally enough, all the statements are nothing but an empty set of phrases addressed to nowhere. Baku has always upset and will upset any kind of monitoring activity, has conducted and will conduct anti-Armenian campaign, and the Co-chairs can never lay down the law for her. The other day Ilham Aliyev stated that "The world crisis has bypassed Azerbaijan". And very soon we may hear that Azerbaijan exists in an utterly different planet… Never mind! But there is another interesting point too: Baku keeps speaking of poor Armenia, demoralized Armenian Army, and anything that comes to their mind. But in all the statements only fear is felt. Not unknown Mubariz Ahmedoghlu came to the point of uttering that Armenian politicians start their day with reading Day.az. Well, he can think so if he likes. Surely we read Azeri press but solely in order to find out to what extent the Azeri nation expresses its animal hatred against the Armenians. One thing remains obscure, why should «heroic seven-million strong» Azerbaijan fear «poor and cowardly» Armenia?

And against this background the OSCE Minsk Group issues an optimistic declaration: "The Co-Chairs deplore that in 2008 over 30 people were killed and more than 50 injured, and another six killed since the beginning of this year, as a result of ceasefire violations. The Co-Chairs urge the parties to review again their proposal to consolidate the ceasefire, which was made at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki in December 2008."

All these statements are presented to the society as «preparation for a new summit between Presidents Sargsyan and Aliyev». Even without the mediators' words it was clear that the Presidents were going to meet again, by the way in April or in May, i.e. either at the Energy Summit in Sophia or at the meeting on "Eastern Partnership" in Prague. You needn't be an oracle or a mediator to realize it. But it's a fact that the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is little by little retreating.

According to Expert at RA Center for International & Political Analysis Ruben Mehrabyan, after reduction of prices on oil and collapse of world economy, the interest of international community in the Region flagged. "If several months ago the OSCE Minsk Group took steps towards speeding up the negotiation process, now it seems, the already common visits to the Region constitute justification for the «uniqueness» of the US Co-chair Mathew Bryza, whom the new US administration may substitute. However, we should not pretend that the conflict cannot be regulated without Bryza. Everyone knows that it cannot be settled in the near future," Mehrabyan said.

"Unfortunately," the expert noted, "the Co-chairs accepted the rules of the game of conflicting sides against the background of full imitation of the negotiation process. It would be more advisable for the world community to use the OSCE MG resources on further democratization of the states instead of pointless visits." But the mediators are in a hurry, or they just pretend to be. The thing is that there is a possibility of substitution in the group of the three mediators. By the way, it does not only refer to Mathew Bryza. However, we'll wait and see, especially since the mediators themselves are as usual optimistic.

"We welcome the frank and open discussions of these issues with the two Presidents since their last meeting in Zurich, and hope to continue to make progress in the talks by clarifying and narrowing the differences between the sides so that a peaceful settlement can be reached in the soonest possible timeframe," the OSCE MG statement goes.

And, of course, the mediators condemned the upset of the monitoring. However, there is just one trouble - Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk did not dare name the real offender of February 26.