"Two Armenian parties are involved in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict - Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia. As the Karabakh party is artificially left out of the talks over the conflict settlement, giving an evaluation to its diplomatic activities is incorrect," stated President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasian in an interview with Regnum.ru. In his words, permanent meetings of heads of the Foreign Ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan are undoubtedly useful, however these cannot substitute for the full negotiation process with equal participation of Nagorno Karabakh. Answering a question about why is not the OSCE Minsk Group format for the conflict settlement not to the liking of Azerbaijan, A. Ghukasian referred to the military and political status quo in the confrontation region, which does not suit Azerbaijan. In his opinion, just due to that reason the Azeri leadership works for getting rid of the OSCE MG mediator, which come for the necessity of mutually acceptable compromises in the peaceful settlement of the problem, are respective towards the Karabakh party's position and keep in touch with the NKR authorities. Speaking of Stepanakert's posture over the future status of Nagorno Karabakh, A. Ghukasian noted that "the matter can concern only equal relations of two subjects of the international law: the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan - least due to the NKR having demonstrated to the world that the level of democratic changes in it is much higher than that in Azerbaijan." "Having imposed a brutal blockade and then a war upon us Azerbaijan even has not concealed its intentions to annihilate or evict the Armenian population from Karabakh. One is hardly entitled to accuse us in defending our right to live in our historical Fatherland with arms," A. Ghukasian concluded.