Thursday, July 18 2019 16:57

ArmInfo."Prodemocratic" rhetoric will increasingly camouflage the pragmatic interests of Brussels over time, driven by with highest priority of the energy and communication  capabilities of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Russian political analyst  Andrei Areshev expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.

"This will not disappear anywhere, in this light, with the upcoming  replacement of European Council President Donald Tusk with Charles  Michel and an active interest of Brussels to interact with the  countries of the Eastern Partnership. And the replacement of the  first persons of the European Union will not lead to a revision of  the Eastern policy of Brussels, including the Transcaucasus. It is  clear that Europe is unlikely to succeed in forming a uniquely  pro-Western geopolitical space in this region. However, the parade of  pathos called European integration with the aim of covering the  actual absence of a substantive agenda for the "Eastern partners"  will undoubtedly continue, "he said.

According to a political analyst, the loud statements made by same  Tusk, during the July tour in the Caucasus about supporting the  "territorial integrity of Azerbaijan" were due to the desire to get  rid of the Kremlin's notorious "energy monopoly". Tusk's Baku  speeches were immediately picked up by Baku propaganda, causing a  fair concern in Yerevan and Stepanakert.

Areshev reminded that the EU and Azerbaijan are currently in the  process of actively agreeing on the Partnership Agreement (CEPA),  which Baku plans to include language that directly contradicts the  Artsakh people's right to a free, democratic life. Thus, the  Azerbaijani authorities do not spare efforts to get the wording of  the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict advantageous to them from the  Europeans.

"In this light, the Armenian expert community is already expressing  concern about the insufficiently active position of Yerevan in  upholding the principles of non-use of force and the right of peoples  to self- determination as not less important than the territorial  integrity of the fundamental principles of international law. The  logical answer to such a political-diplomatic expansion Azerbaijan  could become a competent policy of Armenia towards ensuring stable  relations with Russia, the United States, individual countries of  Europe and Iran. But so far all this has not been seen, "the Russian  political scientist concluded.