Saturday, January 12 2019 14:58

ArmInfo. The Karabakh conflict will not be resolved either in 2019, or in 2020, or in 2021.  It is not at the stage on which it is possible to reach a final decision.  Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan said this on  January 11 in an interview with ArmInfo correspondent.

He noted that these conflicts are never resolved quickly, and the  Karabakh conflict is still quite young. "What is happening now is an  attempt to revive real work within the framework of the negotiation  process. All parties pursue different interests. For example, the  Azerbaijani side is trying to achieve some kinds of concessions for  itself. Basically, the matter concerns the issue of presenting  Azerbaijan as a constructive country. Indeed, until today, the  situation was such that it was the Armenian side that was  constructive, and Azerbaijan, with its position, torpedoed the  negotiation process. Now Azerbaijan is trying to change this  configuration and show that it is ready to take certain steps, but  Armenia does not agree," the expert stressed.

The political analyst also noted that Armenia in this situation is  trying to normalize the negotiation process, as it is one of the  security formats. "Yes, the negotiation process is not the most  brilliant one and this security format does not always work. Thus,  Armenia wants to reanimate it. The interests of the two countries  coincide in a certain sense, and this is due to the intensification  of the negotiation process, but the parties have completely different  goals, " Iskandaryan concluded.

To note, on January 8, the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign  Ministry Anna Naghdalyan confirmed that the OSCE Minsk Group  co-chairs offered to hold the next meeting of the Ministers of  Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan - Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and  Elmar Mammadyarov in January. To recall, the last meeting of the  foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan was held on December 5 in  Milan with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.