Expert: all Azerbaijan can count for is direct talks with Karabakh

June 28, 2011 - 16:48 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Political analyst Karen Bekaryan commented on recent Armenia-Russia-Azerbaijan presidential meeting on Karabakh during a Yerevan-Moscow TV spacebridge.“Signing a document in Kazan would be a mere imitation of a breakthrough, rather than an actual breakthrough in Karabakh conflict settlement,” the expert said.

“A breakthrough is impossible with Azeri leader making one statement inside his country and a different one outside it. No breakthrough is possible with unnatural logic of the ongoing negotiation process,” Bekaryan remarked, adding that all Azerbaijan can count for is direct talks with Karabakh. “Only then a breakthrough would be possible,” the expert said.

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.