Armenia must negotiate with Azerbaijan for peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and simultaneously be ready to resume hostilities, Eduard Abrahamyan, the expert of the “Mitk” analytical center told journalists in Yerevan.
“The Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot be resolved through compromise, since it is an ethnic struggle. Many politicians mistakenly compare the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the Franco-German one. If in the case of Karabakh, there were ethnic cleansings, in the case of the Franco-German conflict, the ethnic structure of Alsace-Lorraine has not been changed at all,” the Armenian expert said.
According to Eduard Abrahamyan, it is not right to talk about reciprocal concessions for the Karabakh problem resolution and keep in mind only territorial concessions. “The territory can be passed only in exchange for other territories. It should be noted that today Azerbaijan needs to establish a land connection with Turkey. Therefore, it needs to negotiate with Armenia more than we, because the Armenian side in the military, geographic, and ethnic terms, solved its tasks. So, Baku should be more interested in continuation of negotiations, than we,” the expert said.
Referring to the recently promulgated Madrid principles, Eduard Abrahamyan observed that the American side, by publishing these principles, made it clear that there is some agreement on them.
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