Wednesday, December 25 2019 22:39

ArmInfo.Artsakh is the only conflict zone in the post-Soviet space that has a very weak presence on the global stage, and in this sense, the Karabakh conflict has a  very bad fate. About this, answering the question of ArmInfo about  the role of international organizations in resolving the Karabakh  conflict, Olesya Vardanyan, co-author of the report of the  International Crisis Group, said.

Vardanyan recalled that almost all of Stepanakert's contacts with the  world take place either through Yerevan or through the office of the  OSCE Personal Chairperson, Andrzej Kasprzyk. <In such circumstances,  when someone is trying to solve a problem for you, often without your  interests being taken into account, of course, distrust of  intermediaries arises, "she said.

The list of diplomats who study the Karabakh issue on a daily basis  is very modest, said Varadanyan, noting that, when compared with  other cases, there are very few international diplomats in the world  who understand the structure of the conflict. She connected this  circumstance with the fact that almost no one came to this conflict  zone.

At the same time, the representative of the ICG noted that the  international community has a realization that Artsakh has its own  interests in resolving the conflict, but the demand of the Armenian  side to include Artsakh in the negotiation process should be  considered in the context of international trends. And official  Stepanakert's participation in the negotiation process for full and  substantive negotiations is a prerequisite, she noted.

<If we talk about what is happening now in the international arena,  then the principle of territorial integrity certainly dominates, it  is becoming stronger. Therefore, the argument related to the  international law of nations on self-determination - no one removes  it- but from the political and diplomatic points of view, it is  becoming increasingly difficult for the Armenian side to promote this  principle. It's more difficult to explain your position, taking into  account the interests of those people who directly live in the  conflict zone>, Vardanyan believes.

At the same time, the representative of the ICG urged not to blame  Armenian diplomacy for this, but to proceed from the context that is  present in the international arena, as well as from the logic that is  difficult to explain, given Baku's disagreement, that Stepanakert  would be a participant in the negotiation process.  As for the  Azerbaijani community of Karabakh indicated by Baku, according to the  crisis group, its representatives may be part of the Azerbaijani  delegation.

In turn, the head of the Analytical Center for Globalization and  Regional Cooperation Stepan Grigoryan said that he is a supporter of  Artsakh being included in the negotiation process. The political  scientist also welcomes the message of Nikol Pashinyan in this  regard, however, the expert does not see an adequate reaction in the  international community in connection with this demand. According to  him, there is no activation of the issue on the global stage  precisely because of poor work in the international arena of Armenian  diplomatic structures. <The Prime Minister set the task and this was  to be the law for both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the  ambassadors representing the republic. Nikol Pashinyan clearly  presents this message, but it is not distributed through channels,  including through the Foreign Ministry>, he said, noting that the  prime minister's messages do not reach the bottom, calling this a  technical problem.