Mahram Toyaşoğlu, a representative of the Development of the Regional Resources of Kazakh District NGO, who participated in public hearings on civil society supervision over violations of the ceasefire regime on the Armenian-Azerbaijani borderline stated, “We have been living in the zone of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict for 24 years already. That conflict has inflicted many wounds on our peoples and erected many barriers and psychological obstacles between them. The ceasefire regime has been in force for 18 years already, but, unfortunately, the agreement is violated. I am very interested in whose interest violations of the ceasefire regime are – Azerbaijan, Armenia or the third party. I as an Azerbaijani can say that breaching the ceasefire regime is not in the interest of Azerbaijan, I know that it is not in the interest of Armenia. Since it means blood, death and destruction. How can the civil society influence maintaining the ceasefire regime – as far as I know, the civil society is not that powerful in Azerbaijan and Armenia, the civil society is totally isolated from that process and is fully under the control of the state.” However, the Kazakh NGO representative thinks that some format of civil society participation in the supervision over the ceasefire regime should be established.
Voskan SARGSYAN
