Suchergebnisse

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (osce) led Minsk Group – the principal mediator tasked with the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is often criticised by Azerbaijan, due to the stalemate in negotiations. The intensive period of engagement between 2006 and 2009 brought first the initial and then the "updated" Madrid Principles. This was the chief working document that set forth the basic principles for peaceful resolution. The inactivity of the Minsk Group is often conceded as the result of maintaining "minimalist goals" – preventing full scale war and trying to bring conflict parties to the negotiating table. The April war in 2016 tested the fragility of the first goal: preventing skirmishes from leading to larger scale conflict. Similarly, after the April 2016 war, the attempt to revitalise the second goal – i.e. bringing the parties to the negotiating table – also collapsed, due to the increased mistrust between the parties after the war.
The article will evaluate the geopolitical changes and their impact on the Minsk Group's work since 2008, the reasons for the demands to change the format of the Minsk Group, and finally Azerbaijan's perspectives on the limitations of the Minsk Group's current mandate and mechanisms.

Seeking to place the smm within the broader matrix of actors and initiatives involved in Ukraine, the contribution discusses the role of the osce smm in supporting the implementation of the Minsk Agreements. The smm has a role in monitoring, reporting and facilitating the implementation of the ceasefire elements in the Minsk Agreements, and interacts with a range of stakeholders across different levels. The contribution discusses some significant challenges and impediments to the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, and looks at how the smm's possibilities and limitations to monitor and report on the security related aspects of these Agreements are affected by such constraints.

This paper analyses confrontation that occurred between Armenia and
Azerbaijan concerning Nagorno Karabakh territory, as well as the many
attempts to finally get this conflict resolved. The war between Armenia and
Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh ended with the ceasefire
agreement under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group, which is empowered for
final resolvment of this issue. This process has been going on for years,
but a solution is yet to come. The European Union in recent years is trying
to reduce dependence on Russian natural gas and orients to new suppliers,
primarily in the southern Caucasus region. Western countries are interested
in resolving conflicts in South Caucasus due to its economic and political
interests in the region and the fact that these conflicts pose a risk to
investment. The authors of the paper will bring forth the views of all
stakeholders in addressing the problem of Nagorno Karabakh and analyze their
interests in an attempt to predict the possible final solution to the
conflict.