ArmInfo.The absence of full-format talks is a derivative of the lack of political will on the part of the Azerbaijani leadership to achieve a final settlement of the conflict. This February 19, summarizing the activities of the department in 2017, said Artsakh Foreign Minister Masis Mayilian.
He recalled that full negotiations are negotiations of three parties - Artsakh, Azerbaijan and Armenia, who signed the cease-fire agreement in May 1994. The Artsakh Minister emphasized that this format is fixed in the final document of the CSCE / OSCE Budapest Summit. "Based on this, we believe that efforts should be directed to the resumption of the trilateral negotiations of Artsakh-Azerbaijan-Armenia, and not the creation of a new negotiating architecture." Preventing the resumption of trilateral negotiations with direct and full participation of Artsakh, refusing to implement peacekeeping initiatives to strengthen the cessation regime fire, pursuing a consistent policy to escalate the conflict, Azerbaijan deliberately drags out the establishment of lasting peace in the region, "the minister said. "First of all, I would like to clarify the terminology. Full-fledged negotiations provide for the involvement of three parties - Artsakh, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, which signed the cease-fire agreement in May 1994. It is this format that is enshrined in the final document of the CSCE / OSCE Budapest Summit. Accordingly, we believe that efforts should be exerted to resume the trilateral Artsakh-Azerbaijan-Armenia negotiations, and not to create new negotiation architecture." Artsakh MFA said.
It should also be noted that the lack of full-format negotiations is a derivative of Azerbaijani leadership's lack of political will to achieve a final settlement of the conflict. By impeding the resumption of the full-format negotiations with the direct and full- fledged participation of Artsakh, refusing to implement the peacemaking initiatives to strengthen the ceasefire, and pursuing a consistent policy of escalating the conflict, Azerbaijan deliberately protracts the establishment of lasting peace in the region. In this regard, it is worth recalling that the full-format negotiations were undermined in due time as a result of similar manipulations by the Azerbaijani party, which, at the peak of the development of the Great Political Agreement, insisted on the elaboration of settlement principles as a basis for continuing the negotiations. Now Azerbaijan proposes to abandon the discussion of the principles of the conflict settlement, which it initiated, and to start some kind of structured negotiations. Such inconsistency of the Azerbaijani authorities raises no doubts that this initiative, like the previous ones, is just a trick, resulting from their unwillingness to recognize the right to self-determination realized by the people of Artsakh as a basis for achieving a final settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Karabakh.