"Germany appreciates Azerbaijan as a good, reliable and important partner. And, of course, we do everything to help the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," the German parliamentarian from the Social Democratic Party and head of the German delegation to the OSCE, Doris Barnett, said at the symposium on stability and security in the South Caucasus held in Berlin.
Doris Barnett noted that in the framework of its OSCE chairmanship, Germany has made substantial efforts to bring closer the positions of the sides of the conflict - including by organizing meetings between Azerbaijani and Armenian deputies with the support of the German Foreign Ministry. According to Barnett, the example of Germany and France, which were once sworn enemies, and now are close allies, could be a suitable model for Azerbaijan and Armenia. In this context, Barnett stressed the necessity of a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "Blood shouldn’t be shed anymore," the Bundestag deputy noted.
However, it should be recalled that the German-French reconciliation, which is often cited as an example by German politicians as the desired model for the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, took place only after the complete and unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Without a final military defeat of the Third Reich in its war unleashed against the Soviet Union and the allied forces, as well as the subsequent return of occupied Alsace-Lorraine to France during the Second World War, it would have been impossible to talk about the French-German friendship. In contrast to the two Western powers, neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan thinks of surrender: on the contrary, both sides are actively building up their military capabilities.
Note that the symposium on stability and security in the South Caucasus, dedicated to the Khojaly tragedy, was held on February 13 in the Bundestag parliamentary society with the broad participation of German deputies, officials, policy experts and numerous representatives of diplomatic personnel accredited in Germany.
