Kazimirov: No One Going to Impose Peacekeeper to Karabakh Conflict Parties

PanARMENIAN.Net - No one is going to impose peacekeepers to the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Russian President's Plenipotentiary Representative on Nagorno Karabakh (1992-96), former Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov said during an on-line interview in OpenArmenia.com forum. "Let them solve the problems themselves! However, can they agree and specifically observe arrangements? This is proved by nothing yet. Out of the agreements just made within the 18 years of conflict, two were broken rather quickly and a third one - that on the cease-fire - is kept on the whole, but not ideally. Judge yourself whether the parties can agree on everything themselves and the most important to observe all arrangements without assistance from outside?" he remarked.



Answering a question when in his opinion the process on settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict itself will begin, Kazimirov said, «Yes, these are merely consultations, though at the high and even top level, search for a number of contact points. However, it is time to restore the full talks. The next meeting of the two Presidents could give green to it, however the traffic lights became jammed on the yellow,» the Russian diplomat stated. «All parties to conflict should take part in the negotiations. The OSCE Budapest Summit has commissioned the Minsk Group co-chairs to hold talks between the parties to conflict. No one has canceled that decision.» In his words, the two parties have in fact deformed the negotiation process. It is strange this did not meet OSCE proper counteraction. The lack of ability to assert and put into effect one's decisions, passed at a summit forum is not the best attestation of effectiveness of an international organization, he summed up.