Yerevan is engaged in useless activities
USA Baku and urges Yerevan not to stop the negotiation process. USA The special representative of the State Department for the South Caucasus, Philip Ricker, came to Baku with such a mission trip did.
Recall that President Ilham Aliyev a few days ago he openly declared that Yerevan France due to the request of the president to attend the meeting, the negotiations scheduled to be held in Brussels on December 7 will not take place.
Philippe Riker will visit Armenia soon trip should do. Ricker will probably try to persuade Pashinyan to withdraw his request during his visit to Yerevan.
In parallel with this, there was a duel of words between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries.
Azerbaijan The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement regarding the recent speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Ararat Mirzoyan.
“Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan” Armenpress news during his interview with the agency Azerbaijan and Armenia tried to misrepresent the nature of the negotiations, the preparation of the peace agreement, the delimitation process, the mine threat, as well as the recognition of territorial integrity and confuse the public, which is completely groundless and unacceptable,” – Azerbaijan It is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Azerbaijan and Armenia at the next meeting of its leaders France the condition put forward by Armenia regarding the absolute participation of its president once again shows that the Armenian side is not faithful to its commitments and has forgotten that the agreement on the next meeting was reached in Brussels on August 31, not in Prague. Despite the agreement reached on holding the next meeting in Brussels, the Azerbaijani side did not attend the meeting in Prague, as well as the EU Council President Charles Michel and France agreed to the participation of the president. This, unfortunately, led to abuse in the next round of negotiations, showing France to be a biased and unfair mediator. “Unlike Armenia, the Azerbaijani side has not given up negotiations between the leaders of the two countries and is committed to continuing the negotiations in accordance with the agreement reached in Brussels,” the report said.
Thus, the facts show that the negotiation process as a whole is in jeopardy. Do those in Yerevan really not understand this when they put forward the condition of Macron’s participation in high-level meetings? After all, Azerbaijan, for example, Turkey does not require the participation of its president as a mediator in the negotiations. That is, there is a question about what kind of policy Pashinyan is currently pursuing. Is he deliberately delaying negotiations with Azerbaijan? But why?
Russian political scientist, professor of St. Petersburg State University Stanislav Tkachenko agreed to answer the Press Club’s questions:
– The purpose of the negotiations of Yerevan and also with Azerbaijan Armenia Peace of conflict between way position regarding the speed of the solution process is dictated by two main factors. These are what happened in the internal politics of Armenia Europe It is the format of relations with some states of the Union.
Speaking from the point of view of internal politics, within the framework of the Yerevan negotiation process Baku any constructive step aimed at reaching an agreement with 2020means the international legal recognition of the results of the war lost in This issue, which is sensitive for Armenian public opinion, is from the opposition Prime Minister It is used as an element of the struggle for power with Nikol Pashinyan. Nothing can be changed here, autumn (2020The results of the war will remain the axis around which the internal politics of Armenia will revolve for a long time.
Yerevan from the point of view of foreign policy Europe He is trying to improve his position in negotiations by bringing his Union and one of the leaders of this integration union, France, to his side. These efforts political and it is useless from a diplomatic point of view, because it cannot lead to a revision of the outcome of the war. However, Armenia maintains the status quo in the negotiation process by acting in this way. He considers this (status quo, i.e. extension of negotiations) to be a more favorable situation than open international legal recognition of the results of the war. But this policy of Yerevan cannot continue forever, and at some point it will have to move to the discussion of controversial issues. Apparently, they think that such a moment has not yet arrived in Armenia, and the tactics of prolonging the negotiations political they are of the opinion that it is justified.
Rauf Orujov
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