Yesterday Simultaneous CUS: Abkhazia, Transdniestria, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh as post-soviet space realities conference opened in Moscow. As stated by CIS Institute Director, Russian State Duma Deputy, member of State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots Constantine Zatulin, who is one of organizers of the event, the conference was being arranged for some half a year. Its main goal was to acquaint wide public with the life in unrecognized states. “We want to hear opinions of political scientists, experts, public figures of those states,” he stated. “By the way, on the eve of the conference it seems to me that Georgia and Azerbaijan started panic over the conference held, following someone’s example. In my opinion, Georgia got totally afraid that we are going to form a simultaneous CUS. In the reality “simultaneous CUS”, which underlies the conference title, only reflects our notion of the happening, i.e. simultaneous Commonwealth of Unrecognized States, CUS in short [the acronym CUS in Russian is the same as CIS – Commonwealth of Independent States – translator’s note]. No one was going to recognize the commonwealth as a formal structure in the course of the conference. There is no commonwealth of the kind, however it is available due to the fact of these formations being thrown away from the legal political life and legitimate international relations. As of the signing of any documents, nothing of the kind will take place and it was not provided for initially,” Zatulin added. “The Soviet Union has collapsed and then why we should believe that borders once drawn by someone, e.g. providing for presence of Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan or Abkhazia as part of Georgia, are something eternal, not subject to any correction due to the events taking place?.. Besides, we do not make any political decisions at the conference. Even if we did, I think that impartial consideration of the issue, an attempt to present an alternative viewpoint is very important. As of the nervous response of Azerbaijan to the fact of organization of the conference, I regret the reaction was that of the kind,” the Russian MP stated, reported the Echo Baku newspaper.
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