“The world community exerts pressure on Ankara and Yerevan.”
Armenia continues to act as the petitioner in the Armenian-Turkish process, said head of the Sivilitas Fund and former Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, speaking at the presentation of the report “Armenia 2009: promise and reality” in Gumri.
According to him, the more Yerevan asks, the more problems will there be in the Karabakh settlement. In his view, it was originally naive and a mistake to believe that the Armenian-Turkish process and the Karabakh settlement will not be linked to each other. “However, regardless of the belief of the international community that these two processes are not bound, it is not like that, and they will always bind these two processes,” he said.
In his view, the world community exerts pressure on Ankara and Yerevan. He has no doubt that pressure on Armenia will increase in the issue of Karabakh settlement to manage to maintain balance.
Referring to the possible resumption of hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone, Oskanian noted that there are two factors in which the probability is minimal. First is the hope for the negotiation process, second is the economic and military balance between the conflicting parties. If you violate one of the factors the probability of war increases. “At a time when Baku decides that the negotiations have reached an impasse, the risk of renewed hostilities will increase. Today the situation is complicated and unpredictable, considering the statements of official Baku, so it is necessary to be prepared for any scenario,” Oskanian said.
