ArmInfo.In an interview with ArmInfo, the political scientist Stepan Grigoryan said that as a person who has over the last three decades dealt with the conflict over Artsakh he does not know about any documents that are essentially different from the Madrid principles.
"Therefore, if Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan knows anything about any additional documents, he should present them to the public. In any case, his year-end statement on a 2011 document, which did not contain a single word about Artsakh's interim status, implies this very step. He later corrected his words, though. But in any case, I would advise him to conduct a more thorough study of the documents on Artsakh," the expert said.
As regards Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev`s much-talked-of statement at his meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and attempts to draw parallels between the so-called Lachin and Zangezur corridors, Mr Grigoryan said that such parallels appear at least strange, as President Aliyev is trying to draw parallels between the situations that have very little in common. In this context, no comparisons are admissible between the "road of life" to Artsakh, which is still being sniped at, and the road to Nakhichevan, which is neither blockaded nor sniped at.
Speaking of two major events of 2021 - the Pashinyan-Aliyev meetings in Sochi and Brussels - Mr Grigoryan views them as showing somewhat concurrent positions of the West and Russia on the Armenian- Azerbaijani peace process. He believes that the Kremlin views the Brussels talks as a follow-up to the Sochi meeting. In this context, Mr Grigoryan emphasized the fact that Moscow had no objections to a dialogue between Pashinyan and Aliyev in Europe. The intention of not only Russia, but also other actors, to deal Artsakh and with the problems on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border caused by the Azerbaijani aggression can only be welcomed.
"In this context, further negotiations stand a chance of proving a success. Any disagreements on Artsakh between the major actors would hinder the process of dealing with the spectrum of problems. The Brussels agenda proved much close to that of the Shochi meeting, which is evidence of absence of conflict between Moscow and Brussels over at least this issue. As regards the Sochi meeting, no strict requirements were imposed on Yerevan in the context of corridors, border delimitation and demarcation or specific dates for decisions of crucial importance for Armenia were set," Mr Grigoryan said.