«I suppose that my criticism of the Council of Europe rapporteur on Nagorno Karabakh David Atkinson was little, but he deserves much,» stated former Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Vladimir Kazimirov, Day.az reported. In his words, in his report Mr. Atkinson limited himself merely to problems lying on the surface, i.e. occupation of a number of Azeri regions and the hard destiny of the displaced persons. He did not wish to go into the root of the problem. “Maybe he would better dig deeper and there would have been many questions: how it all happened, why the hostilities had not ceased for so long and the UN Security Council resolutions were not fulfilled? There would have been no occupation and outcomes if the conflict was solved within the legal framework by means of political tools. The document is composed to provide a cause to Baku for deciding the issue by force. As Armenians are either slier or more constructive. All of these I view as incompetence of Mr. Atkinson, who did not wish to go deeply into the essence of the conflict seriously,” Kazimirov emphasized. He added that one should not forget that the PACE decision is of recommendation nature and the parties to conflict contrived not to fulfill even UN SC compulsory resolutions. Moreover, due to a protracted information, or rather disinformation war, the Karabakh settlement has acquired a large number of myths, legends, false ides and new ones will hardly change anything.
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