WHY THE MINISTERS DID NOT MEET
Yesterday in Brussels the Co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzliakov and Bernard Fassier met with eth Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamedyarov. Naturally, nothing special could be expected of this work meeting. It is quite simple that the extremely complicated issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict cannot be settled by a few meetings, especially when the American Co-Chair of the Minsk Group Matthew Bryza and Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian did not take part in them. In any case, if the absence of Bryza can be explained by his honeymoon in Turkey, the motivations of Vardan Oskanian's absence remain vague. It is well known that the Armenian Foreign Minister is at present in Brussels, therefore arranging a meeting of all the sides involved in the peace process on Karabakh would not prove difficult. According to Yerevan officials, in July took place a meeting of Vardan Oskanian with the OSCE Co-Chairs, without the participation of Azerbaijani representatives, so the presence of Oskanian on the yesterday meeting was by no means compulsory. This is, of course, only an official statement, but let us mention a tendency that the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan always negotiated over the recent years when meeting in frameworks of various international events. This year the tendency was broken, as a separate meeting of the two officials in Brussels has not been arranged either. This fact makes us think of a serious regress in the peace process of Karabakh, which also explains the warlike statements by the authorities of Azerbaijan.
To be reminded, in August were held consultations of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, in which also took part the Deputy-Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Genady Karasin. All the participants of the consultations predicted that after the elections in Armenia and Azerbaijan passiveness will occur in the Karabakh process. The latest events in Brussels proved that predictions true.
Moreover, according to certain sources, Vardan Oskanian will be running as one of the probable candidates for the office of RA presidents on the elections in 2008. Evidently, this may cause more passiveness in the Karabakh process.
Naturally, in these circumstances, deliberations about the possible solutions of the Karabakh conflict may be used against the main candidate for the office of the President of Armenia, as an advocate of decadent policy. Of course, Vardan Oskanian and his team, which is already being forged, won't give this chance to their opponents.
On the other hands, we daresay that in Brussels another "window of opportunities" was closed.
- By Armen Manvelian
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