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WHY ARMENIA AGREES TO THE CO-CHAIRS’ PROPOSALS

Politics

“The most important thing in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the maintenance of the cease-fire regime. It is more significant than liberation of the lands and immigration of the refugees”, stated former Co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group and Deputy Chairman of the Association of Russian Diplomats Vladimir Kazimirov.

He notices that very often the terms of the signed cease-fire are distorted when we speak of a “temporary armistice”. Kazimirov notes that even if there are no time limits fixed in the signed agreement it is a permanent armistice, not a temporary one and the difference between these two phenomena is of utmost importance.

By the way, Vladimir Kazimirov can understand Azerbaijan’s warlike attitude. The Azeri used to be mightier and were much more in quantity than Armenians but they lost the war and are now eager to resume their position through a revenge.

Kazimirov also spoke of the liberated lands calling them “captured areas”, seized as a result of martial activities.

So, the existence of captured areas is considered an objective reality by Kazimirov. He cannot understand why the Armenian side should agree to the proposals of Azerbaijan to convey the areas in return for a theoretical referendum due in fifteen years’ time. In Kazimirov’s opinion 5 years is quite enough to conduct a referendum.

In the “Novosti Armenia” international agency Vladimir Kazimirov expanded on the armistice agreement signed on May 12, 1994.

He admits that the western representatives of Minsk Group could have solved the conflict long before if only they had had a desire. But since their only aim was to neutralize Russia and contradict her suggestions, the signing of the armistice was held back till May 1994.

“And unlike the Western countries which had just started to establish diplomatic relations with our region at the beginning of the 90s, Russia knew well both the conflicting sides and their peculiarities”, notices Kazimirov.

Kazimirov also stressed the importance of Karabakh’s participation in the negotiation process as Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh do not always share the same interests.