Political scientist has commented on the situation in the Karabakh conflict in the light of Armenia’s refusal to recognize updated Madrid principles.
'Armenia’s position voiced by Nalbandian at the meeting with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs shows that the leading powers still view official Yerevan as a capricious and inadequate child. The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs could not force Armenia continue peace talks. By their patience to the constantly changing position of Armenia, the superpowers in fact allow Yerevan protract the negotiation process on the Karabakh conflict settlement', political scientist Fikret Sadikhov said.
'The fact that the co-chairs have not arrived in Baku within the framework of their visit says that they are unable to set definite frames of the further conduction of negotiations and provisions of definition of Nagorno Karabakh status within the framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Nothing changes: by means of international mediators, Armenia is trying to gain Azerbaijan’s agreement on independent status of Nagorno Karabakh and only after that to make compromises and return the occupied lands', the political scientist said.
'The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have avoided visiting Baku because they merely have nothing to say and nothing to boast about. The Minsk Group has put itself into an awkward position after the current visit to Yerevan and Khankendi and thus fully discredited itself in the eyes of Azerbaijan and the world community. If it is unable to put pressure on aggressor Armenia, it means the co-chairs have no right to speak of the strengthening of military rhetoric by Azerbaijan', Sadikhov said.
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