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    SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT NOT IN NEXT 2 YEARS: ANALYST

    Tert.am
    12:30 ~U 11.12.09

    It appears from statements made by Azerbaijan's leadership that
    they are experiencing a sort of fatigue that the negotiations are
    proceeding so slowly, while perhaps there isn't any progress, said
    Director of Russia's International Institute for Political Expertise
    Evgeny Minchenko to Azerbaijani news source 1news.az.

    According to Minchenko, there is no peaceful settlement to the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, while settling the conflict via military
    means is not a solution. "Truthfully, I assume that the settlement
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not take place in the coming
    two years. The meetings between Erdogan and Obama are neither key
    nor strategic. As I've already said, there exists an issue of the
    security of strategic objectives, including those objectives which
    interest the U.S.: that is, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan [pipeline]. Today that
    issue of the security of objectives, in the case of military conflict,
    becomes a certain suppressed element against that circumstance when
    military operations begin," noted the analyst.

    Minchenko believes that in the case of conflict, Russia will attempt
    to employ all its efforts, so as not to allow military development.

    "Russia is an important, but not central, element. One cannot
    overestimate Russia's abilities in the question of the influence
    it has over Armenia's position. First, Armenia's and Azerbaijan's
    leaderships and people must settle that conflict. That, in the first
    case, is their will, while even the influence of such serious players
    as Russia, U.S., [and] Turkey are secondary," concluded Minchenko.
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