Political analyst Rasim Musabeyov commented on the visit of the Minsk Group and assessment mission of the OSCE to the occupied regions of Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijani party indirectly demonstrates its dissatisfaction with ineffectiveness of the OSCE Minsk Group, and I believe that the evaluation mission will be able not just to walk in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan but also to prepare a report on what they saw there. The OSCE and the UN will have an open mind to gather facts that demonstrate the results of Armenia's occupation policy in the territory of Azerbaijan.
The report of the mission should be prepared for the December OSCE summit in Astana. It is important for Azerbaijan that the international community fixes and confirms the policy of artificial settlement of Armenians in the occupied territories, the pillaging of the Azerbaijani lands and destruction of cultural monuments, infrastructure and human settlements. If no progress is attained at the OSCE summit in Astana towards a peaceful resolution of Karabakh conflict, then Azerbaijan will submit this report of the mission to other international organizations.
If there is no progress in Astana, the OSCE will have to recognize the futility of the Minsk Group format, and countries participating in it should apply to the UN Security Council for further consideration of the Karabakh conflict already at this international level. And then Armenia will not be able to block the adoption of resolutions on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan and this time resolutions of the Security Council will indicate the date of the withdrawal of Armenian troops from Azerbaijani territories and penalties that will apply to Armenia in case of failure to execute these resolutions. Major powers and the international community can apply strong leverage against Armenia, otherwise, the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict threatens to spin out of their control.
Therefore, I believe that 2010 will be decisive or turning in the Karabakh conflict, because after that Azerbaijan will have grounds to take any harsh steps to restore its territorial integrity. In the case of the failure of international efforts to resolve the Karabakh issue, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict may aggravate closer to spring of 2011", Musabeyov said.
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