{"id":92078,"date":"2011-05-03T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=92078"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:24:29","slug":"us-should-oblige-russia-to-leave-armenia-azerbaijan-alone-turkish-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/03\/us-should-oblige-russia-to-leave-armenia-azerbaijan-alone-turkish-diplomat.html","title":{"rendered":"US Should Oblige Russia to Leave Armenia, Azerbaijan Alone: Turkish Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think the meetings organized by the Russian president which bring together Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process will lead to any solutions, former Turkish envoy to the OSCE Minsk Group<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Canden Azer told Epress.am recently.<\/p>\n

According to him, the Minsk Group in its current form is not “working diligently to find a solution” to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict:<\/p>\n

“When it was first established in 1992, it had a different format, we were all included as members, and we were working very hard, but at that time the war situation, the occupation of the regions around Nagorno-Karabakh did not really make it possible to find a solution. Today under this co-chairmen formula most of the countries like Turkey are not involved and are not consulted; when the co-chairs visit the capitals, they talk with the leaders but it does not provide any green light, any hope for the future.”<\/p>\n

The Turkish diplomat ascertains that it is not in the interest of Russia, one of the three current co-chair countries, to find a solution, because in the South Caucasus today, it’s only Armenia and Russia who don’t have problematic relations.<\/p>\n

“Russia has also good relations with Azerbaijan, but between Azerbaijan and Russia there is no alince treaty: there are no Russian soldiers in Azerbaijan’s territory, whereas in Armenia there are two divisions or maybe more four. If a solution is found to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia will improve very rapidly,” he said.<\/p>\n

The same holds true for Armenia-Turkey relations, he said. “Once this problem is solved, Turkish-Armenian relations will develop very quickly and so Russia will lose its role in the South Caucasus. That\u2019s why I do not think that it is in Russia\u2019s interests to find a solution to this problem.”<\/p>\n

According to Azer, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has to be resolved through the two Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders “getting together to talk this problem out.”<\/p>\n

Asked who could do this, Azer said the US. “It can exert some pressure on Russia to leave Azerbaijan and Armenia alone so that they can find a solution.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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