’Armenia wanted to withdraw its signatures under the protocols of Zurich’ said Rasim Musabeyov.
Political scientist Rasim Musabeyov has commented on the situation in the Armenian-Turkish relations and Karabakh conflict settlement, in the light of the freezing of protocols by Armenia.
’Armenia wanted to withdraw its signatures under the protocols of Zurich, but Sargsyan was explained during his visit to the United States and Europe that Yerevan will not be allowed to do this. It was made clear that West is interested in the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border and even if this process has failed at the current stage, it does not mean that they should reject all the achievements between Turkey and Armenia’, the political scientist said.
’By signing the Zurich protocols Armenia pursued the aim to sow a discord between Turkey and Azerbaijan. The matter is that Turkey is a military and strategic partner of Azerbaijan and in case of hostilities in Karabakh Armenia will be in a difficult state. Therefore, Yerevan ’strategists’ hoped that the Armenian-Turkish protocols will be of use in this direction. However, Armenia and those backing it did not manage to sow a discord between Ankara and Baku’, Musabeyov said.
’On the contrary, Turkey and Azerbaijan benefited more in the established situation with the Armenian-Turkish protocols. First of all, Ankara was able to preserve ally relations with the United States and the West has accepted Turkey as a growing superpower. The west and the world community agreed to the growing role of Turkey in international policy, because it cannot be otherwise.
Now, they will have a small trading with the West about the format and the scale of growing Turkey’s positions in different regions. Turkey has also received an active role in the Caucasus, including in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict — from now on the Minsk Group co-chairs agree to take into account Turkey’s interests and position in this issue’, the political scientist said.
’Second, Azerbaijan could prove and persuade the West that there will be no use of the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border without the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. Baku has insisted on its position and the West decided to settle the Karabakh conflict to protect its interests in the region and then to put efforts to normalize the Armenian-Turkish relations.
West earlier hoped that the Armenian-Turkish border and Azerbaijan will reconcile with it while later it will be possible to coax the Azerbaijani side forcing Armenia to liberate some of the occupied regions. But this plan failed which was admitted by the United States and they approved Armenia’s freezing of protocols. And Turkey would benefit from it because the freezing initiative came from Armenia and the whole responsibility for the further developments is now on Yerevan and its supporters’, Musabeyov said.
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