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Председательствующая в ОБСЕ Ирландия должна обратиться к проблеме неверной квалификации армянских погромов в Азербайджане. К такому заключению приходит автор статьи "Война, которой пренебрегли с 1994 года" Ованнес Никогосян, опубликованной в авторитетном американском "Журнале внешней политики" (Foreign Policy Journal).

Перечисляя конфликты на Южном Кавказе и в Приднестровье, автор статьи выразил мнение, что неутихающий конфликт часто является следствием отнюдь не отсутствия мирных инициатив, а нежелания сторон оставаться приверженными соглашениям, которые были обговорены на встречах. Это особенно касается мирных переговоров по Нагорному Карабаху, где география переговоров с момента подписания соглашения о прекращении огня, проходила в самых прекрасных городах планеты - Риме, Хельсинки, Праге, Лиссабоне, Москве, Париже, Ки-Уэсте, Мадриде. В тоже время, прогресса как такового не заметно. Ситуация "ни мира, ни войны" - единственный значимый результат мирных переговоров. В настоящее время усиливается риск развязывания конфликта, поскольку обе стороны занимаются "устрашением" в стиле холодной войны с привлечением наращенного военного потенциала.

"В деле решения конфликта я всегда обозначаю два ключевых момента: решительное международное вмешательство и зрелость политического и общественного руководства", - отмечается в статье. Автор проводит параллели решения схожих конфликтов в Карабахе и в Северной Ирландии. Одно из наиболее трагических событий так называемых "Беспорядков", названное "Кровавое воскресенье", произошедшее в январе 1972 года в Белфасте, может служить примером различных подходов Великобритании и Азербайджана в отношении конфликтов на территориях, которые обе страны заинтересованы сохранить за собой. Кабинет Тони Блэра выступил с отчетом, в котором содержался правдивый и законный анализ произошедшего. Эти события можно сравнить с погромами армян в азербайджанских городах - Сумгаите, Баку, Кировабаде, где в конце 90-х годов происходили этнические чистки. Руководство Азербайджана отделалось несколькими судебными делами, открытыми по статье "хулиганство" и обвинило само армянское население в "провокации, которая привела к погромам". "Этот пример качественно отличает карабахский вопрос от истории с успешной концовкой, которую получила проблема в Северной Ирландии, и, на мой взгляд, Ирландия, председательствующая ныне в ОБСЕ, должна обратиться к этой проблеме", - резюмирует автор.

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