ArmInfo. Negotiations on the Karabakh settlement are necessary for solving two tasks - maintaining peace and forming an atmosphere of trust. RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Shavarsh Kocharyan stated this in the conversation with journalists.
At the same time, he stressed the need to implement the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements to create an atmosphere of trust and implement mechanisms to investigate border incidents.
Kocharyan recalled that the ceasefire agreement was signed between Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan in 1994, but Baku constantly violates it, the apogee of which was the military aggression initiated by Azerbaijan in April 2016. "How can we talk about progress in the negotiations if there is no trust between the parties. Moreover, the fact that Azerbaijan renounces its international obligations casts doubt on any future agreement. It turns out that Baku can sign any document at any time, and violate it the next day. Today, we do not have any guarantees that Azerbaijan will not start new military actions, since it has chosen a method of force to resolve the conflict," the deputy minister concluded.
In the near future the meeting of the heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, will take place. As the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group reported earlier, the two heads of state expressed their readiness to return to the talks.
After the April war, the Armenian side stated that it was impossible to continue the negotiations until the St. Petersburg and Vienna agreements on the reduction of tension, the implementation of mechanisms for investigating border incidents and creation of the atmosphere of confidence, which Baku refuses.