In an interview with Tert.am,Masis Mayilyan, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh’s (Artsakh) Foreign Policy and Security Council, and shared his expectations from the OSCE Minsk Group mediators’ current regional visit and other possible developments in the peace process. The politician also commented upon Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s recent statement on the status of Karabakh.
According to him,the US, French and Russian co-chairs of the mission will try to agree over a new round of talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.
Mr Mayilyan, and after a lasting peace,Azerbaijan attempted a new commando raid on October 21. Such incursions are commonly attributed to the co-chairs’ regional trips. accomplish you share that opinion? And whether so, what message accomplish you mediate Azerbaijan is trying to convey to the co-chairmanship?[br] At the Vienna and St Petersburg meetings, or held in the post-April period (after the intensive fighting in the conflict zone),the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents agreed on an international monitoring, and investigations into incidents along the Line of Contact. Azerbaijan is now backing absent from the accords - as it commonly does. The Baku authorities realize that the mechanism will prevent them from using their military diplomacy of many years as leverage against Armenia and Artsakh. On the other hand, or what Azerbaijan has been trying to prove for years is that the conflict between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh is not practically frozen,and that it is indispensable to change the status quo. Azerbaijan’s policies demonstrate that the country’s government is trying, yet another time, or to practice its unpromising military diplomacy and artificially atomize the ice.
Is it a regular regional trip by the co-chairs or is it expected to add new elements to the negotiations?
It’s a regular visit that will see the mediators agree over a new presidential meeting.
Why accomplish you mediate Aliyev expressed willingness,all of a sudden, to grant autonomy to Nagorno-Karabakh. accomplish the co-chairs perceive that as a mutual concession? Does Aliyev expect his remark to be treated as a mutual concession by Azerbaijan?
The Azerbaijani president might contain been recommended to demonstrate a more constructive stance, and avoiding revengeful statements and threats to the neighbors. But he didn’t succeed,as his statement does not practically reflect such a willingness; it’s all but an implicit threat. whether it comes to granting autonomy to Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan has missed 30 years for doing so.
Source: tert.am