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    THE GIN COMES OUT OF THE BOTTLE
    by Vardan Grigoryan

    Hayots Ashkharh
    Jan 25 2008
    Armenia

    New debates at the PACE winter session

    The debate on the Kosovo issue during the [2008] winter session of
    the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] and the
    resolution, adopted on its base on 22 January, is a manifestation of
    the total impotence of the European community on reaching a coordinated
    compromise on the status of this territory.

    It was not occasional that on the day of the resolution's adoption
    Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci stated that the deadline for the
    proclamation of Kosovo's independence was agreed with Washington and
    Brussels and will be announced in the nearest future. Thus, although
    the PACE has called to continue the negotiations based on Resolution
    1244 of the UN Security Council, even Russia, which has authorized
    such an amendment to the document [1244 resolution] adopted by the
    PACE, realizes that it is no more possible to stop the process.

    The situation

    The Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations, which participated in the
    PACE winter session, clashed at a different time presenting to the
    international community serious and essential differences in their
    approaches.

    Unlike the MP representing Azerbaijan, Qanira Pasayeva, who once
    again reiterated as a parrot Azerbaijan's simple point of view that
    "there is no common grounds between Kosovo and Nagornyy Karabakh,
    and these conflicts differ by their roots, history, causes", the
    Armenian delegation this time selected a totally new strategy of
    debating and did not reply to the idle talk of the Azerbaijani side.

    [Passage omitted: details of the debate]

    The recent statements on the issue voiced from the PACE rostrum by the
    Armenian parliamentary delegation, the structure of which has been
    significantly strengthened, differ qualitatively from the tactic of
    simply wrangling with the Azerbaijani colleagues, in which our side
    has usually lost over the last years. This time the blow was aimed at
    the goals [of the Azerbaijani delegation] themselves, and we believe
    the failure of separating the "Kosovo precedent" from the Earth and
    presenting it as some unknown, alien phenomenon has become obvious
    for participants of the PACE winter session.

    It is more important that such statements on the issue by the
    Armenian side were voiced on the eve of the proclamation of Kosovo's
    independence , when the international community, on one side, is trying
    to create an impression of the continuation of the negotiations,
    but on the other hand, realizes extremely well that it will have no
    other way except for recognizing Kosovo's independence in the future.

    Kosovo's precedent becomes the peculiar gin and the inevitability of
    it coming out of the bottle forces the European Union to think from
    today about preserving the unity of its political positions.

    Due to the maturing of the "Kosovo precedent", we are on the eve of
    radical breakthroughs in the international legal practice, which will
    provide new and unprecedented opportunities for developing a certain
    model for the settlement of conflicts in the post-Soviet area.
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