Kazimirov: Sabine Freizer Dramatizes Situation

PanARMENIAN.Net - "In my opinion media pay superfluous importance to statements by official and unofficial figures on Nagorno Karabakh let it be panic utterances by Sabine Freizer or rich speeches by Matthew Bryza. In this genre Eldar Namazov's latest interview to Echo newspaper deserves greater attention," former Russian Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement Vladimir Kazimirov said in a conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, Ms. Freizer deliberately dramatizes the situation and even announces of the failure of the process. "Pretending not to see a new mediator in the process she in actual fact bustles for EU's interference in the matter.



Recording the history of the Karabakh talks' since 1994 the ICG is not well aware of it, although the OSCE has been dealing with the issue since 1992. Over incompliance of the sides the conflict has many times reach a deadlock but this doesn't not mean the end of the process. By the way, Ms. Freizer should not be afraid of contacts between the conflicting sides without mediators. Let me remark that the mandate of the Co-chairs encourages immediate contacts between the sides in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict including talks on the most important issues. It's another matter that not all of the parties are ready for it," the Russian diplomat said.



He underscored that statements by separate figures hardly deserve such attention. "It's much more important to analyze the report submitted by the Co-chairs to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna June 22. Serious discussion of the current stage of the settlement process should be launched without panic," Kazimirov said.