ArmInfo. Striving for the return of Artsakh to the negotiation process, the restoration of the trilateral format of the negotiations, Yerevan and Stepanakert proceed from the need to achieve real progress in resolving the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Artsakh Republic Masis Mayilyan expressed such an opinion to ArmInfo.
"We believe that all the necessary prerequisites for this have long been overdue. The tripartite negotiation format, as time has shown, proved to be the most effective and efficient. Trilateral agreement on the cessation of hostilities in May 1994 under Russian mediation was concluded in this very format. This was the only tangible result in the settlement process, "the diplomat said.
Mayilyan assesses the formula for success of the trilateral negotiation format, when each of the parties directly represented their interests, discussing the issues of their competence as quite simple. In his opinion, the return and the very process of Stepanakert's participation in the negotiations can be based on a similar formula.
According to the diplomat, the intention expressed by Prime Minister Pashinyan to negotiate exclusively on behalf of Armenia means the impossibility of discussing issues under exclusive competence and powers of the Artsakh authorities between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
According to the diplomat, the intention expressed by Prime Minister Pashinyan to negotiate exclusively on behalf of Armenia means the impossibility of discussing issues under exclusive competence and powers of the Artsakh authorities between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"Evaluating this position of Yerevan as objective, we believe that such an approach may well become one of the mechanisms for Stepanakert's return to the negotiation process," the minister stressed.
Since 1992, the OSCE Minsk Group, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the United States and France, has been involved in resolving the Karabakh conflict. Since the signing of the trilateral agreement on the establishment of a truce between the parties to the Karabakh conflict, almost a quarter of a century has passed. And all these years, surges of murders on the Line of Contact have been interspersed with negotiations towards peace.
However, since the end of last year, the killings have practically stopped, and the OSCE MG mediators, Baku and Yerevan, have started talking about the need to prepare the parties to the conflict for peace.