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Roundtable â€œFuture of Karabakh â€“ future of peacemaking initiativesâ€

14 July 2009 10:19 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova â€“ APA. Strategic Research Center under the President of Azerbaijan organized a roundtable â€œFuture of Karabakh â€“ future of peacemaking initiativesâ€, APA reports. The roundtable was organized on the initiative of the Strategic Research Center and British International Alert organization to discuss the last phase of the negotiations over the peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Chief of the centerâ€™s foreign policy research department Gulshen Pashayeva said very interesting events took place in the region over the past year, including Georgia-Russia conflict and actions taken toward the normalization of the Turkey-Armenia relations. She said these events had an impact on whole region, concretely on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict and created encouraging dynamics in the negotiations. She said the round table aimed to search methods of use of peopleâ€™s diplomacy if the negotiations were fruitful.

Director of International Alert Asian and Eurasian Programs Phil Champaign informed the participants about his organization. â€œSouth Caucasus is very important region for us. We hope for a leap in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflictâ€.

The event attended by the Azerbaijani and Russian political scientists was continued behind the closed doors.