GEORGIA
RUSSIA
ARMENIA
Yerevan
AZERBAIJAN
NAGORNO-KARABAKH Baku
TURKEY
NAKHICHEVAN
(AZERBAIJAN)
Stepanakert
Shusha
Lachin
IRAN
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Казимиров В.Н. Мир Карабаху. Посредничество России в урегулировании
нагорно-карабахского конфликта. М.: Международные отношения, 2009.
Translated into English by Alexei Zverev and Margret Satterwaite.
Originally published in Russian under the title:
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Kazimirov, V. N.
Peace to Karabakh. Russia’s Mediation in the Settlement of the NagornoKarabakh
Conflict. – Moscow: VES MIR, 2014. – 608 pp., ill.
ISBN 978-5-7777-0568-6
A book focuses on Russia’s efforts to resolve the ethnopolitical conflict in Transcaucasia
that had grown into a real war, especially at the most difficult stage of active
and fierce hostilities, right up to the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement, in effect since
12 May 1994. The author, Vladimir Kazimirov, who was the head of Russia’s mediatory
mission, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President for Political Settlement
of the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (1992–1996), reveals the content of
the mediator’s very complicated work with the conflicting parties, full of all kinds of
vicissitudes, offering characterisations of the participants in that process and an assessment
of their positions.
Worthy of note are the judgements of the author, a one-time participant in, and
co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, on cooperation and rivalry with Western partners
which sought, in the guise of conflict settlement efforts, to restrict or curtail Russia’s
influence in the region.
The book incorporates the author’s articles and statements on the Karabakh
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conflict. The appendix contains international documents on the settlement of the
conflict, as well as documents on Russia’s mediation and a timeline of Karabakh settlement.
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Contents
In Place of Introduction
Abbreviations Used in This Book
PART ONE TOUCHES OF REMINISCENCES
Why?
Prologue
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The First Encounter and Early Contacts With Heydar Aliyev 29
Karabakh at the 28th Congress of the CPSU
In a ‘Prep School’
The ‘Illegitimate’ CSCE Minsk Group
The First Steps of the Minsk Group
Baku – Nakhichevan
A Face-to-Face Meeting in Moscow (August 7–8, 1992)
A Fit of the Blues: Was the Minsk Group Created
for the Sake of the Settlement or Vice Versa?
The Early 1993
Heydar Aliyev – In Moscow Again
The Russia-Turkey Initiative and Its Collapse
The First Thing to be Achieved is Limitation of Hostilities
With Heydar Aliyev – Finally in Baku
Ambassadors, too, have Occupational Diseases
The Fall of Agdam
Direct Contacts between Baku and Stepanakert
Three Messages for Boris Yeltsin
The Shocks of the Autumn
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Three Confessions by Phone
A Border Incident of November 20, 1993
The Stories Spinned Over That Incident
and Who Spinned Them
The Remote Flank of the Karabakh Front
Yerevan’s Version and a Bit of Logic at Least
The Shady Deal of December 1993
The Bishkek Protocol
The Signing of the Protocol in Baku
Baku – Moscow, May 9–11
12 May – A Breakthrough on the Path to Peace in Karabakh
Necessity Truly is the Mother of Invention
Benefits and Flaws of the 1994 Ceasefire
Moscow Meeting of the Defence Ministers
Consolidation of the Armistice: Fantasies vs Reality
Some Are Not Too Happy With the Armistice Either
The Role of Russia’s Mediatory in Achieving the Ceasefire
Our Western Partners are into Schemes
The Uproar Among Our Western Partners
And Something Else About the Neutrals
Karabakh Peace Efforts at Yevgeni Primakov’s Time
A Preliminary Summary
PART TWO HIS MAJESTY THE ARGUMENT
There Is No Dispensing With Mediators (1994)
Russia and the CSCE Minsk Group (1994)
Speech About the Mandate of the Minsk Group Delivered
at the Meeting of the CSCE Permanent Committee (1994)
To the Chairman of the Conference on Nagorno-Karabakh
held under the CSCE aegis Mr Jan Eliasson (1994)
The CIS Contribution to Putting an End to the Karabakh
Bloodshed (2000)
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Letter to OSCE Secretary-General Ján Kubiš (2003)
Azerbaijan and the UN Security Council resolutions
(reviewing the Lessons of the Past in the Karabakh
Conflict) (2004)
Letter to PACE Rapporteur on Nagorno-Karabakh
David Atkinson (2004)
Nagorno-Karabakh Must Take Part in Negotiations
Who Sought a Military Solution to the Karabakh Conflict
Open Letter to the OSCE Chair-in-Office Dimitry Rupel
People’s Diplomacy must get a New Lease on Life!
People’s Diplomacy is to Be Kept on a Leash!
Signing is Half of the Matter. Implement!
Too Much Ambiguity and Deceit Surrounding
the Karabakh Conflict
Two Helsinki Principles and an ‘Atlas of Conflicts’
Is There A Way Out of the Karabakh Deadlock?
An Important Document or Just a Regular?
High-level Signature, albeit a ‘Double-bottomed’ One
Russia, OSCE and the Karabakh Conflict
(15th anniversary of the ceasefire in Karabakh)
APPENDIXES
The Principal International Documents Concerned With
the Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Appendix 1. Zheleznovodsk Communiqué (Zheleznovodsk, 23.09.91)
Appendix 2. Summary of the Findings of the CSCE Council of Ministers
(Helsinki, 24.03.92)
Appendix 3. Joint Statement by the Heads of State (Tehran, 07.05.92)
Appendix 4. Resolution 822 of the UN Security Council (30.04.93)
Appendix 5. Resolution 853 of the UN Security Council (29.07.93)
Appendix 6. Resolution 874 of the UN Security Council (14.10.93)
Appendix 7. Resolution 884 of the UN Security Council (12.11.93)
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Appendix 8. Statement by the CIS Heads of State (Moscow, 15.04.94)
Appendix 9. The Bishkek Protocol (Bishkek, 05.05.94)
Appendix 10. Agreement on the Ceasefire Starting 12 May 1994
Appendix 11. Decision of the CSCE Summit on Nagorno-Karabakh
(Budapest, 06.12.94)
Appendix 12. Arrangement on Incident Settlement (04.02.95)
Appendix 13. Mandate of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
(01.03.95)
Appendix 14. Summary by the OSCE Chair-in-Office
(Prague, 31.03.95)
Appendix 15. Statement by the OSCE Chair-in-Office
(Lisbon, 03.12.96)
Appendix 16. Joint Statement by the Presidents of Russia, the USA
and France (Denver, 23.06.97)
Appendix 17. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ Proposal
(‘Package Scenario’), 1997
Appendix 18. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ Proposal
(‘Stage-by-Stage Scenario’), 1997
Appendix 19. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ Proposal
(‘Common State’), 1998
Appendix 20. Moscow Declaration (02.11.08)
Documents Related to Russia’s Mediatory Efforts
and Direct Contacts Between Baku and Stepanakert
Document 1. From Baku. On the Termination of the Shelling
of Stepanakert and Agdam (17.06.93)
Document 2. From Stepanakert. On the Limitation of Hostilities
on the Territory Between Magadiz and Agdam (27.06.93)
Document 3. From Baku. On the Limitation of Hostilities
on the Territory Between Magadiz and Agdam (27.06.93)
Document 4. From Baku. On the General Limitation of Hostilities
for a Period of 3 Days (24.07.93)
Document 5. From Baku. On the General Limitation of Hostilities
for a Period of 3 Days (25.07.93)
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Document 6. From Baku. On the Meeting Between the Officials
of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
on 28 July 1993 (27.07.93)
Document 7. From Stepanakert. On the Prolongation of the Previous
Arrangement for a Period of 7 Days and a Summit Meeting
Between the Leaders of the Republic of Azerbaijan
and Nagorno-Karabakh (28.07.93)
Document 8. From Baku. On the Prolongation of the Previous
Arrangement for a Period of 7 Days and a Summit Meeting
Between the Leaders of the Republic of Azerbaijan
and Nagorno-Karabakh (28.07.93)
Document 9. From Baku. On the Prolongation of the Previous
Arrangement for a Period of Another 3 Days and
a Summit Meeting Between the Leaders of the Republic
of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh (28.07.93)
Document 10. Credentials Granted by Heydar Aliyev
to Vice-Premier Rasul Guliev (17.08.93)
Document 11. From Baku. On the Resumption of the Ceasefire
for a Period of 5 Days and a Meeting Between
the Top Leaders of the Republic of Azerbaijan
and Nagorno-Karabakh (17.08.93)
Document 12. From Baku. On the Resumption of the Ceasefire
for a Period of 11 Days and a Meeting Between
the Top Leaders of the Republic of Azerbaijan
and Nagorno-Karabakh (17.08.93)
Document 13. Credentials Granted by Heydar Aliyev to Vice-Speaker
Afiyyadin Dzhalilov (31.08.93)
Document 14. Credentials Granted by Heydar Aliyev to Vice-Speaker
Afiyyadin Dzhalilov (03.09.93)
Document 15. From Baku. On the Prolongation of the Ceasefire
for a Period of Another 3 Days (10.09.93)
Document 16. From Moscow. Joint Communiqué by Representative
of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh Based
on the Results of Their Meeting at Russia’s Ministry
for Foreign Affairs (13.09.93)
Document 17. From Stepanakert. On the Establishment of a New Ceasefire
for a Period of 10 Days (16.12.93)
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Document 18. From Moscow. On the Non-Observance by Baku
of the Mediator’s Arrangement with Heydar Aliyev
Regarding Formalisation of a Ceasefire for a Period
of 10 Days (18.12.93)
Document 19. From Baku. Misleading Return Letter That Thwarted
the Establishment of the 10-Day Ceasefire Starting
17 December (19.12.93)
Document 20. From Baku. On the Establishment of a Ceasefire
for a Period of 10 Days (26.04.94)
Document 21. From Stepanakert. On the Implementation of the Protocol
of February 18 Instead of the 10-Day Ceasefire (28.04.94)
Document 22. From Baku. On a General Ceasefire Starting
12 May 1994 (09.05.94)
Document 23. From Yerevan. On a General Ceasefire Starting
12 May 1994 (10.05.94)
Document 24. From Stepanakert. On a General Ceasefire Starting
12 May 1994 (11.05.94)
Document 25. From Moscow. An Arrangement on Closed-Door
Contacts Between Baku and Stepanakert (it was never signed)
Timeline of Russia’s Mediatory Efforts in the Framework
of the Peaceful Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
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Kazimirov, V. N.
Peace to Karabakh
Russia’s Mediation in the Settlement
of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Редактор: О. Зимарин
Художник: В. Яковлев
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