Goran
Lenmarker declared yesterdayThe special OSCE PA reporter on
Karabakh conflict Goran Lenmarker declared during the sitting of the 61st "Rouse-Rote"
seminar on "NK conflict and the role of international community in the settlement
of the conflict" that the conflict wasn’t frozen and it was having more and
more heavy price day by day. Lenmarker noticed that the conflict is like a toothache
if you have a toothache you don’t think of anything else, you go to doctor; "Both
Armenia and Azerbaijan have concentrated on that conflict instead of creating
new, independent states and the settlement of the conflict will direct their energy
on more useful things." Lenmarker advised to look ahead and not back and
think that a step to the future would be taken in case of the settlement of the
conflict.The head of "International Group of Crisis" Sabie Frezier
said that though the dates of settling the conflict had come but it wouldn’t be
settled that year, she considered the settlement possible in 2006. "The sides
must take a rather big step and come to some mutual concessions. We hope it will
happen during 2006 but it will be possible only in that case if the sides really
believe not in war summons but in piece". Mrs. Frezier speaking on the status
said; ‘The matter is that the sides must agree that the NK status is under question,
which must be settled based on some mechanism." The proposal was the following;
" We’ll make about 20 detailed proposals in our account. We advise to hold
the referendum by the participation exclusively Armenians and Azeris of Karabakh
when all "occupied" territories will be given back and Azeris of Karabakh
will be returned to their houses". And the date of holding the referendum
won’t depend on Armenia’s or Azerbaijan’s will but a conference of international
institutions will determine it, which will appraise if Karabakh satisfies the
preconditions of State System and if it provides for the complete protection of
minorities.The representative of Macedonia Slobodan Kasule noticed in his
sensitive and "Armenian way" speech that Karabakh conflict didn’t look
like other conflicts and we shouldn’t do here what we did in Balkans; "it
is more difficult here than it was in Balkans as the war continues formally here
and there are refuges." Mr. Kasule asked drowing parallels with what happened
in Makedonia, Slovenia and in Balkans in general; "Do you want to do same
here?" It seemed concrete negative answer wasn’t sounded to the question."The
further freezing of Karabakh conflicts impermissible because the sides have different
approaches to the problem; one side affirms that the problem must be settled according
to the right of self-determination, the other side thinks that it must be settled
based on the territorial integrity. But the Helsinki declaration considers both
rights equal and there is no argumentation against the principle of self-determination
in Karabakh conflict", – the special representative on South Caucasus issues
of the United Kingdom Brian Fall said during the conference. The NA chairman Arthur
Baghdasarian greeting the participants of the seminar declared that he saw the
settlement of all problems in the development of democracy.The RA Minister
of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanian declared in his turn; "The conception
of our security isn’t ideological, it is strategic, and not political when we
speak about security, we don’t think who provides and what kind of ideology is
behind it. We have serious connections of security with Russia and it isn’t secret
that Russians have military stations in Armenia and are ready to keep it here
for a while. We are the member of CIC collective security and make closer our
relations with NATO."Margaret Yesayan
