Forecast: The handover of Artsakh territories will be a strike not  only for the US and Europe, but for Russia itself

ArmInfo. Turkey will never give up its centuries-old policy towards Russia, one of the  initiators and leaders of the Karabakh movement, the well-known analyst Igor Muradyan, are convinced.

"And Turkey will always strive to be close to the US, including in  the Caucasus, while Ankara has frozen in anticipation of new  approaches that are not yet available." I do not consider the  tripartite Iran-Turkey- Russia alliance, since there is nothing new  in this strategy there are, of course, desires, but there are also  contradictions in the foreign policy of these three countries,  including in the Middle East," he told 1-in.am.

Seeing in the Russian-Turkish relations threats to Armenia, the  analyst considers the prospect of their improvement at the expense of  Armenian interests unlikely. According to him, Armenia today has many  other opportunities, which allows the country to maneuver. In such a  situation, Russia remains alone and finally to spoil relations with  Armenia for the sake of ghostly Turkish prospects, Moscow will not.

"We must understand that the game is not over and everything is not  lost." Russia is Russia's priority problem today, losing which Russia  will lose everything. "Moscow understands what tragedy for it is all  that is happening in Ukraine today." All those who have lost  something, there is nothing left to lose and nothing to lose, and  everything will be fine with Karabakh, the main thing will not be war  and the threat of losing territories will not become a reality. "The  surrender of the Artsakh territories will be a blow not only to the  US and Europe, but to Russia itself," Muradyan said. .

In this light, the analyst predicts an early demise of the OSCE Minsk  Group, predicting the emergence of new realities and ideas for  Europeans, Americans and Russians. According to him, we should expect  the emergence of not new states-intermediaries on Karabakh, but new  ideas, since it is impossible to move forward on the basis of the old  ones.

The OSCE Minsk Group has been dealing with the settlement of the  Karabakh conflict since 1992, represented by the co-chairs from  Russia, the United States and France. Currently, the settlement  process is based on the Madrid Principles put forward by the OSCE  Minsk Group Co-Chairs in 2007 and updated in 2009, including, among  other things, the deployment of a peacekeeping contingent in the  conflict zone.