Official Stepanakert not surprised at Kazan meeting results

PanARMENIAN.Net - Kazan processes have been anticipated, we expected the very developments that occurred there, David Babayan, head of the central information department at the office of the Artsakh President told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

“Even before Kazan meeting Artsakh representatives stated in their interviews that the meeting will not give expected results, first of all, because of destructive policy of Azerbaijan,” he said.

Babayan also noted that it became a tradition that at the threshold of trilateral meetings or after them Azerbaijani representatives, including their President, come out with Program statements. In this respect, he stressed recent interview of Ilham Aliyev to Euronews TV channel before the Kazan meeting in which he openly said that he has nothing new to propose to Armenia, since Karabakh is allegedly a “primordial Azerbaijani land”.

The summit between Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in Kazan on June 24 completed without an agreement on basic principles of Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. “The countries’ leaders registered mutual understanding on a range of problems, the resolution of which boosts creation of conditions for approving main principles. The meeting participants considered the course of works carried out with the aim of coordination of the project with basic principles,” according to the statement. The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed gratitude to the Russian, French and U.S. leaders, the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs, for ‘their constant attention to Nagorno-Karabakh problem’ and highly praised personal efforts of the Russian President in support of agreements.

Later on Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian noted that the June 24 meeting was not a breakthrough, as Azerbaijan proved unready to accept the final version of the basic principles suggested by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs. Instead, the Azerbaijani leader attempted to impose 10 new proposals, thus precluding the possibility of any agreement on the issue,” he added.