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    ZEYNO BARAN: AZERBAIJAN IS WORRIED THAT KOSOVO MAY BE USED AS A PRECEDENT

    armradio.am
    01.04.2008 13:35

    Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy and Senior Fellow at the
    Hudson Institute Zeyno Baran declared in an interview with Mediamax
    that "Baku's sharp criticism of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, especially
    the US, is a strategic step to reinforce the support of Azerbaijan's
    position in the world."

    Zeyno Barak expressed the opinion that the adoption of the Resolution
    on Nagorno Karabakh in the UN General Assembly "was a response to
    the proclamation of Kosovo's independence and the broad support it
    received in the West."

    "Baku is worried that Kosovo can be used as a precedent, and Georgia
    shares this anxiety. Thus, this Resolution can be viewed as an
    attempt to prevent such development of events. Moreover, taking into
    consideration the fact that Russia is using the issue of the Kosovo
    precedent in the context of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, I think that
    Baku and Tbilisi wished to get convinced that Kosovo would be viewed
    as a unique case, and see how Russia would vote," Zeyno Baran said.

    "There is growing concern in Azerbaijan that the West is unfair towards
    it because of it's being a Muslim country. Azeris see how resolutely
    the US defends the territorial integrity of Georgia and do not see a
    similar attitude towards them. Certainly, taking into consideration the
    fact that the United States is a Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the
    US Administration cannot have a different stance on the Karabakh issue.

    Unfortunately, it's hard for an ordinary Azerbaijani to understand or
    accept this difference. Many Azeris feel that they are an important
    ally of the US in the fields of energy security, fighting terrorism and
    other issues, but they do not get much in response. At the same time,
    the Azeri Government and most of the society understand the importance
    of partnership with the US and will not allow that Resolution to
    harm Baku's relations with Washington," Director of the Center for
    Eurasian Policy and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute said.
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