Front-line incidents, the Safarov case and the opening of the airport in Nagorno Karabakh have shifted priorities towards defusing tension rather than seeking a solution", said in annual ENP Progress report on Azerbaijan, published today by European commission, APA reports.
According to the report, There was also no progress on the incident investigation mechanisms supported by both sides at the Sochi Summit in January 2012. The European Union Special Representative on the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia visited the region on three occasions to support the work of the OSCE Minsk Group, and the EU funded project 'European Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict in Nagorno Karabakh', aimed at developing confidence-building measures, entered its second phase.
"Negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have regrettably slowed down. The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents have not reconvened since the Sochi meeting in January, and the Foreign Ministers mostly limited their availability for meetings in the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair format to separate approximation talks."report states.
The security situation remained volatile. In June, there were serious tensions at the Armenian- Azerbaijani border with a minimum of eight servicemen reported killed. This coincided with the visit of US Secretary of State Clinton to the region.
The latest dynamics in bilateral relations impacted negatively on trust between the parties and run counter to the Presidents' readiness expressed at the beginning of 2012 to speed up agreement on basic principles on the basis of work done thus far. The EU has therefore repeatedly urged restraint in actions and public statements, in order not to escalate an already difficult situation.
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