Dmitry Furman: Karabakh Conflict Settlement Prospects Vague

The prospects of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement are the vaguest, irrelevantly of the meetings held at various levels, said Dmitry Furman, Director of the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In his words, the efficiency of the talks is not necessarily dependent on the attitude of the sides towards each other. “There are examples of successful talks between representatives of the states the population of which experienced a very negative attitude towards each other, for example the agreements concluded by Sadat and Begin in Camp David. Nevertheless I think that nothing can be expected from the Armenian-Azeri talks in the near future,” he said. At that he remarked that GUAM can appear as a factor contributing to the resolution of ‘frozen conflicts’. “However, they can be settled in a faraway future,” Furman said, reported Day.az.