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    AZG Armenian Daily #146, 19/08/2005

    Karabakh issue

    WILL KOSOVO RECOGNITION PIONEER KARABAKH?

    An influential organization in conflict study, the International Crisis
    Group is going to represent the UN letters of credence concerning 44
    persisting conflicts, including Karabakh conflict. Regnum agency quoted
    vice-president of the Group Alan Deletroz as saying that independence
    is the only alternative for Kosovo. "That's our fundamental stance
    which is accepted by a number of officials in the UN and EU but is not
    supported so far by countries of contact group and the capitals. There
    are not less than 2 million residents in Kosovo today and the territory
    is within the EU in fact. If you think the world community will meet
    the claims of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh halfway
    that is, in my opinion, not very realistic", he said.

    The ICG is preparing proposals on Karabakh regulation. "We have
    made two reports on inner political situation in Azerbaijan and
    Armenia. But we have not formulated proposals as yet. If none of
    the sides want to compromise, there will be no peace", Deletroz
    said earlier. In mid-July, the Group organized a closed discussion
    on Karabakh issue in Tbilisi with the participation of Armenian and
    Azerbaijani experts. According to the Azeri press, the Group presented
    Armenians and Azeris a project of conflict regulation that dissatisfied
    the Azeri side. Gyulteki Hajiyeva, participant of the discussion, said
    that the project did not mention the "fact of occupation and tended
    to legalize the administration de facto existing in Karabakh". The
    project proposed to settle Karabakh issue through a referendum.

    International analysts think that the recognition of independent Kosovo
    will open doors for other conflicts as well. Moscow-based analyst
    Sergey Markedonov voiced an opinion in Baku press recently that the
    recognition of Kosovo "will put Nagorno Karabakh next to be recognized
    in post-soviet territory", as "Karabakh, among other unrecognized
    states, is the one that has organized system of governance".

    By Tatoul Hakobian
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