ArmInfo.Based on the latest statements of Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan, the maximum expectations from today's Pashinyan-Putin-Aliyev meeting is a statement on the start of the process of delimitation and demarcation of the Armenia-Azerbaijan borders as well as the formation of an appropriate interstate commission. Stepan Safaryan, founder of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
On November 26, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will take part in a trilateral meeting in Sochi with the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan. On December 15, at the invitation of the President of the European Council Charles Michel, another Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting will take place in Brussels on the sidelines of the Eastern Partnership summit.
"I think that the prime minister has relieved concerns that some other document might be discussed on the Sochi agenda. In particular, it reflects Baku's desire to link the process of clarifying borders with the signing of a peace treaty and, of course, the resolution of the Artsakh problem. Moscow will not be able to link all these issues: the mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group with a trilateral format, even if it itself has such a desire, since it will meet resistance from the other co-chairing countries, "he stressed.
According to the analyst, the latter puts on the negotiating table the only possible document providing for the clarification and delimitation of the so-called "disputed" sections of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The latter leaves Aliyev with the only alternative either to agree to the agenda, to which Pashinyan has already voiced his consent, or to leave Sochi with nothing.
"The Kremlin's statement specifically mentions that in Sochi the parties will discuss the restoration of trade, economic and transport ties. In my opinion, in this case, we are talking about the implementation of the trilateral statement of January 11 of this year. A statement in which, as in the statement of January 9, 2020, there is no word about the corridor that is so coveted for Azerbaijan. If we add to this the last statements of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk and the statement made yesterday by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on the unconditional preservation of the sovereignty of countries over the transport communications passing through their territory in the event of their unblocking, the Sochi agenda will become even clearer and more explicit, "Safaryan summed up.