ArmInfo.Armenian and Azerbaijani MFA Ministers meeting showed that Azerbaijan still wants to solve Karabakh conflict in a forceful way, political expert Richard Kirakosyan stated to journalists on May 2, commenting recent meeting of Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammedyarov in Moscow.
According to him, Azerbaijan's talks on passing conflict settlement exclusively to diplomatic area, turned to be reverence to Russian side in reality. According to meeting results, as the expert thinks, it can be stated once more, there is no diplomacy and no strategy in Azerbaijani diplomatic strategy. "There is a wish to receive everything and even more. Meanwhile, Armenian side still wants peaceful settlement of the conflict", Richard Kirakosyan stressed. On the initiative of the Russian side, on April 28, a working meeting was held in Moscow between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Edward Nalbandian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Republic Elmar Mammadyarov, dedicated to the Karabakh settlement. As the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry reports, the meeting continued discussion of the prospects for the promotion of the negotiation process on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement. The need to implement the agreements reached at the summits in Vienna and St. Petersburg in April and June 2016 was stressed. The heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Azerbaijan and Armenia expressed gratitude to the Minister Sergey Lavrov, for their efforts to contribute to the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict. The ministers agreed to continue contacts on all the issues discussed. As a result of the tripartite talks between the ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, they met with the co- chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - the ambassadors of Russia, the United States and France, as well as the representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, during which they exchanged views on the state of affairs in the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.