Expert: Int’l community lacks united position on Karabakh conflict settlement
By Gunay Camal
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is still a conflict that's long faded from the spotlight and world powers lack joint position over its resolution.
For over 20 years the Armenian-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unresolved despite the taken steps ad efforts. Armenia remains unpunished for crimes that it committed against Azerbaijanis, occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory and seeks to prolong the resolution of the conflict to preserve the status quo.
Neil MacFarlane, professor at St Anne's College of the Oxford University, is among the supporters of idea that the international community has no united position on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"Some outside actors want peace, others want to maintain instability, some support one side, and others support another side. Thus, there is no united position," said MacFarlane while talking to Trend.
The expert believes the international community doesn't make effective efforts to change the status quo.
"The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict appears to have returned to its previous state before the events of April," noted MacFarlane.
The tensions between two South Caucasus nations – Armenia and Azerbaijan have skyrocketed in April following the Armenian provocations along the contact line of the two country’s troops.
The hostilities, which renewed harshly since a fragile ceasefire reached between the two sides back in 1994, slightly fall following a new truce reached through Moscow’s mediation. The recent Vienna meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents gave rise to hope that the conflict can be resolved peacefully preventing the conflict from becoming an all-out war.
The OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, proceeding talks based on the renewed Madrid principles.
MacFarlane further added that the incidents of April were more serious than usual. "It is good that the military confrontation has receded, but the events do underline the fragility of the situation, and the possibility of accidental escalation," the expert assures.
Since the escalation of the situation on the frontline, both neighboring and world countries have expressed their concerns over the escalation of the tensions.
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