Fruitless outcomes of negotiation process-2014 on Nagorno-Karabakh

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.5 By Elmira Tariverdiyeva – Trend: At the year-end it is usual to sum up the results of political processes that have taken place throughout this period. However, in the case of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, summing up the results becomes increasingly meaningless from year to year. The 21st OSCE Ministerial Council held in Basel, Switzerland, didn’t bring any results other than another statement of heads of delegations of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries urging the sides to comply with the ceasefire regime and common phrases of major figures of European diplomacy on the need to resolve the conflict. The foreign ministers of the conflicting sides met with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, discussed the current situation and…And didn’t reach any decision again. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov even didn’t meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian as part of the 21st OSCE Ministerial Council. And this in general proves the vainness of co-chairs’ efforts to present the negotiations in OSCE MG format as positive. Alongside with the conflicting sides, all the observers are also aware that the format of OSCE mediation doesn’t work and is confined to declarative calls. One would think that in such a good time, after Azerbaijan and Armenia have already held presidential election, in a year, when at the initiative of the presidents of Russia, France and the US State secretary the leaders of the two countries held three meetings, at least some progress could be expected. Alas! Nothing new has happened excluding another provocation by Yerevan. And who will condemn the military command and authorities of the aggressor country, if the international mediators allow them to do everything that is contrary to the international law, only limiting themselves to the endless appeals? Why not hold military exercises on the occupied territories turning a blind eye to the light reproaches from the OSCE Minsk Group, if it provides no threat? With human lives not taken into account, the Armenian authorities are known to be indifferent to the victims on the path of their self-will. Thus, one just doesn’t feel like summing up the Nagorno-Karabakh process for the last year at all. And all the optimistic promises of the intermediaries that they will continue efforts sound less and less convincing today. Efforts remaining futile for more than 20 years, are apparently made in the wrong manner and from the wrong place! --- Elmira Tariverdiyeva is Trend Agency's staff writer, follow her on Twitter @EmmaTariver Follow us on Twitter @TRENDNewsAgency