"The principal part of the conflict remained beyond the negotiation process. Besides all, we were the belligerent", member of the commission for foreign policy of the NKR parliament, AFR Dashnaktsutyun representative Maxim Mirzoyan considers. Non-participation of the Karabakh party in the negotiations is not justified, he said in his interview with Azg Armenian newspaper. Editor-in-chief of "Demo" newspaper Gegham Baghdsarian says there are issues "Armenia is not empowered to negotiate on, for example, the issue of the liberated territories". Developing the topic, Mirzoian says that Armenia should categorically state that she will not take part in the talks without Nagorno Karabakh. Moreover, Armenia should gradually quit the negotiation process, leaving Stepanakert and Baku at the bargaining table". Karabakh political scientist Murad Petrosian is of the same opinion: "Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian's statement that if Baku brings forward the discussion of the issue in the UN Armenia will quit the negotiation process should have been made still in 1994", he says.