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    WPS Agency
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    November 27, 2009 Friday



    RUSSIA AND AZERBAIJAN BUILT BRIDGES;
    Dmitry Medvedev conducted negotiations with Ilkham Aliyev

    by Vyacheslav Leonov

    MOSCOW TRIES TO PERSUADE BAKU THAT MILITARY SOLUTION FOR
    NAGORNO-KARABAKH PROBLEM HAS NO PROSPECTS; President of Russia Dmitry
    Medvedev met with Azerbaijani leader Ilkham Aliyev in Ulyanovsk. The
    presidents had to discuss results of another round of
    Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations. Previously, Aliyev stirred up the
    international community having announced that Baku did not rule out
    "liberation of its lands by military way." So, according to experts,
    it was necessary to "sooth him down."

    President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev met with Azerbaijani leader Ilkham
    Aliyev in Ulyanovsk. The presidents had to discuss results of another
    round of Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations. Previously, Aliyev stirred
    up the international community having announced that Baku did not rule
    out "liberation of its lands by military way." So, according to
    experts, it was necessary to "sooth him down."

    Another round of Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations ended in Munich.
    Moscow started taking more active diplomatic efforts aimed at
    reconciliation of Yerevan and Baku claiming the laurels of the main
    peacekeeper in Nagorno-Karabakh. In any case, so far rhetoric of
    conflict participants has been getting only more belligerent.

    On the eve of the Munich round of negotiations Aliyev hinted that
    Azerbaijan might solve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem by a military
    operation. Aliyev announced, "We reinforce our army because we have
    never ruled out such option. We have a full right to liberate our
    lands by the military way."

    Alexander Krylov, expert of the institute of international policy and
    international relations of the Russian academy of sciences, says, "The
    words of Aliyev seriously scared the intermediaries of the regulation.
    I presumed that Medvedev tried to sooth Aliyev down and to persuade
    him that the military way had no prospects." According to Krylov, such
    a course of events would be extremely not beneficial for Russia
    because according to the Madrid principles of regulation it would be
    possible to deploy foreign peacekeepers including those from NATO
    countries in Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Igor Korotchenko, member of the supervisory council of the Defense
    Ministry, says that the two countries have good prospects in military
    technological cooperation. For example, Azerbaijani navy may buy
    Russian combat boats. In any case, Moscow has any kinds of military
    cooperation with Azerbaijan in a way not to spoil relations with
    Armenia.

    Source: RBC daily, November 25, 2009, p. 3

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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