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    OSCE MINSK GROUP VISITS BAKU

    Vestnik Kavkaza
    Nov 30 2011
    Russia

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met the co-chairs of the OSCE
    Minsk Group - Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA) and Bernard
    Fassier (France), with his replacement Jacques Faure. The special
    representative of the OSCE chairman Andrezej Kasprzyk was also at
    the meeting.

    The sides discussed the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    and its prospects.

    The co-chairs monitored the Armenian-Azerbaijani border at the
    village of Jafarli in the Gazakhsky District and met Ayaz Askerov,
    head of the local executive authorities.

    Fassier made note of the fact that it is the middle of their visit.

    They met the president and ministers of foreign affairs and defense
    of Armenia. Tension is lower on the border than on the contact line
    of forces. A meeting with the president, foreign and defense ministers
    will be held in Baku, APA reports.

    Fikret Sadykhov, an Azerbaijani political analyst and professor of
    the Western University, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the situation is
    a stalemate which may enter a hostile stage. It was caused by lack
    of new proposals. Foreign officials visit the area but want the
    conflicting sides to resolve the problem.

    Another problem is that Armenia and Azerbaijan have different
    conditions, the expert goes on. The occupied territory of
    Nagorno-Karabakh has separatism, which is why the UN Security Council
    and PACE passed resolutions and the member-states of the OSCE MG make
    declarations. This is, in fact, a flouting of international law. New
    ideas for a solution are needed. There are still hopes for the Minsk
    Group to resolve the conflict, but such hopes die out more every day.

    Sadykhov says that he does not know a single state interested in the
    conflict. Regional and European states and Russia would not want an
    unstable region. But so far they show indifference. Armenia refuses
    to fulfil the resolutions of the UN and heads of the OSCE MG member
    states. The expert pointed out the ease of intervention in the
    Middle East.

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