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    GERMAN AMBASSADOR'S USE OF 'TERRITORY OF KARABAKH' TERM IN INTERVIEW SUSPICIOUS

    Trend
    May 31 2012
    Azerbaijan

    In an interview of German Ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt
    with the Armenian press, there are moments that clarify the EU position
    in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict's resolution, the director of the
    Center of Political Innovations and Technologies, political analyst
    Mubariz Ahmedoglu told Trend on Thursday.

    The political scientist said that it is difficult at present to say
    anything about the specific activities in support of the public in the
    territory of Karabakh. He also noted that the use by the Ambassador
    of the term "territory of Karabakh" in an interview is suspicious.

    "The EU which has not included in the document a dialogue of
    Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno-Karabakh as an event
    that causes the greatest confidence, requires from the parties easy
    access to the region of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Ahmedoglu said.

    He noted that the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh need such steps of
    the EU to implement their projects. It is their political, economic
    and humanitarian assistance.

    The analyst said that before entering the region of Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict, the EU should take two steps.

    "First, to prepare a thorough plan and to submit it to Azerbaijan
    and Armenia. Secondly, submission of the important parts of the plan
    or project, adopted by Azerbaijan and Armenia should be implemented
    outside the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

    It may be Brussels, Baku, Yerevan, or any other city. Only after
    these items the EU can carry out effective work in the region of
    Nagorno-Karabakh. Other options will lead to the opposite effect
    and may help to increase the tension in the region of conflict, or
    the Armenians could create the additional conditions for imitation,"
    Ahmedoglu said.

    He said the EU exactly tomorrow can begin a dialogue of representatives
    of the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno-Karabakh outside
    its territory. And it will become clear who is actually against the
    peaceful settlement.

    "It should be noted also that in 2010 then Russian President Dmitry
    Medvedev has included to the agenda of relations between the EU and
    Russia an issue of a joint activity on the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    Transnistrian conflicts settlement. Despite the fact that the EU
    adopted a proposal for cooperation in resolving the Transnistrian
    conflict it refused to cooperate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,"
    Ahmedoglu said.

    He noted that the EU officials must determine their position in the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and there is no need for the
    second Minsk group of the OSCE.

    "The position of the EU makes Armenia even more aggressive. A strange
    picture happens: the EU, fearing to enter into a document the terms
    "dialogue of Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno-Karabakh"
    or "Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno-Karabakh" advises
    us not to take into account the mutual interests with Russia and to
    supply gas and deal with the transit of gas to the EU," Ahmedoglu said.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. -
    are currently holding peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

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