Neither Obama, nor Putin can solve the Karabakh conflict if the sides do not want themselves
Today, we have an official status, but there is not a real discussion, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, said on Monday during a Yerevan-hosted discussion on the Karabakh issue. “The [conflicting] sides are either engaged in patriotic rhetoric or are limited to reporting news,” Thomas De Waal said during the discussion held at the Media Centre. The expert confesses that it is difficult for him to offer a solution to the conflict because the situation is getting more and more complicated. “In the given situation, I think it would be better to create a platform for organizing meetings of the presidents of the conflicting sides, of course, with their consent. If the parties do not express a desire to solve the problem, believe me, neither Obama, nor Putin can do anything for them,” he said. Sahin Rzayev, Country Director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Azerbaijan, who also participated in the discussion, said people in his country are convinced that the war is not over yet.
