FIKRET SADYKHOV AND ALEXANDER ISKANDERYAN BELIEVE AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA WON’T EXCHANGE KARABAKH
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Sept 17 2013
17 September 2013 – 8:14pm
While OSCE Minsk Group co-chair James Warlick is paying an official
visit to the region, several officials from the State of California
decided to visit the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The US administration immediately issued a statement, saying that the
federal authorities have nothing to do with this initiative. In spite
of that the case immediately drew public attention, along with the
recent visit to Karabakh by a German lawmaker that was also condemned
by the Bundestag.
Vestnik Kavkaza discussed the situation surrounding the Karabkh
conflict with Professor of the Western University Fikret Sadykhov
and Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskanderyan.
Both experts told the news agency that the so-called Meghri plan
is impossible to implement nowadays. According to the initiative
suggested in the 90s, Nagorno-Karabakh was expected to be exchanged
for the Meghri region.
“This is impossible. This idea was suggested by American political
scholar Paul Goble and other experts, but it’s unwise to exchange your
territory for another territory of yours. It’s not in Azerbaijan’s
interests,” Sadykhov said.
“Nagorno-Karabkh is not a toy that a child can exchange for something.
Karabakh is not an object, it’s a participant in the political
process. It may be unrecognized from the point of view of the law,
but it is truly independent,” Iskanderyan said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
