ArmInfo.With a statement about the "Karabakh" filling of the meeting with Putin, Erdogan signed his own impotence to influence Moscow in this matter. The director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, professor Ruben Safrastyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
Declaring to the Turkish media about the discussion of the Karabakh problem with the Russian president in Sochi, Recep Erdogan said: "Russia has influence over Armenia, we decided on the need to implement the previously adopted decision on five of the seven districts." Mr. Putin is positive, but, as I understand, I do not think that his hopelessness is connected with the relations between the two sides."
"As far as I can judge from Erdogan's statement, in Sochi, the Russian colleague made it clear to him that there is nothing to do in Artsakh." The weakening of Artsakh and Armenia by Russia, accompanied by the strengthening of the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem, is unprofitable, which I maintained before the Sochi meeting, and the achievement of a consensus between Moscow and Ankara remains unlikely in the Artsakh issue, "Safrastyan said.
The turkologist also reminded that Russia is a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group, a non- alternative international mediation format for the settlement of the Artsakh conflict. In this light, the orientalist believes that the appearance of a new mediator in the negotiations on Artsakh directly contradicts Moscow's interests. On the eve of the Sochi meeting with Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced discussion of other issues and the Karabakh problem at the meeting. Erdogan expressed the supposition that if the Russian colleague is concentrated on this issue, it "will be easily solved".