War in Karabakh Can Start Any Moment, ICG Vice President Considers
18.01.2006 21:38 GMT+04:00
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[...]Alain Deletroz, Crisis Group Vice President for Europe stated [...] the situation on the contact line seems quiet because no one speaks of it. [...]. If we compare the Karabakh conflict with the Abkhazian or the South Ossetian the number of victims at the contact line in Karabakh is much greater. “The Armenian Defense Minister with whom I met last September said 40 people die every year. I suppose the number of victims from the Azeri side does not differ. Thus, if the matter concerns 80 killed soldiers annually this conflict cannot be rated as frozen. War can break out any moment. If one conflicting party is convinced that it has enough strength to liberate the seized territories, war can be expected [...] {but since the} economy is slowly developing both in Armenia and Azerbaijan [...] it would be extremely [...]{disadvantagous} to levy war.
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[...]Alain Deletroz, Crisis Group Vice President for Europe stated [...] the situation on the contact line seems quiet because no one speaks of it. [...]. If we compare the Karabakh conflict with the Abkhazian or the South Ossetian the number of victims at the contact line in Karabakh is much greater. “The Armenian Defense Minister with whom I met last September said 40 people die every year. I suppose the number of victims from the Azeri side does not differ. Thus, if the matter concerns 80 killed soldiers annually this conflict cannot be rated as frozen. War can break out any moment. If one conflicting party is convinced that it has enough strength to liberate the seized territories, war can be expected [...] {but since the} economy is slowly developing both in Armenia and Azerbaijan [...] it would be extremely [...]{disadvantagous} to levy war.
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! Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to «PanARMENIAN.Net».
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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