ArmInfo.It is impossible to resolve the issue of security and the fate of Karabakh people behind their backs. Accordingly, I cannot imagine the final resolution of the Karabakh conflict without direct participation in the process of Stepanakert.
Former presidential plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation on Nagorno-Karabakh, former co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group from Russia (1992-1996) Vladimir Kazimirov expressed such opinion to ArmInfo.
Following a brief meeting on Monday in Brussels with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once again expressed his conviction to journalists that Artsakh should be returned to the negotiating table. "We briefly talked with Mr. Aliyev at dinner. It was a general conversation about the current situation on Nagorno-Karabakh. There are no specific plans for a new meeting in the future. I am confident that the negotiation process will continue, and now it is very important to return Nagorno-Karabakh to the negotiating table. Impossible achieve a settlement of this conflict without Karabakh, "the Armenian premier stressed.
"By signing the Ceasefire agreement on May 12, 1994 in Bishkek, we couldn't imagine that the conflict would not be resolved after 25 years. We expected that the agreement would be strictly observed. As subsequent years showed, it was in vain. The main reason for delaying the conflict is Azerbaijan, which still needs artificial manifestations of ostentatious patriotism. The authorities of this country continue to mislead their own people, arguing that if not today, then literally everything will be returned tomorrow," the diplomat said.
Sharing the position of the Prime Minister of Armenia on the need to resolve the Karabakh conflict on the basis of an acceptable scenario for all its parties: Kazimirov does not harbor particular hopes in this direction for the peoples of Armenia, Karabakh and Azerbaijan. The reason for this pessimism of a diplomat is 25 years of fruitless negotiations. In this light, predicting whether Nikol Pashinyan's calls for peace will be heard in Baku, according to Kazimirov, is rather difficult.
Since 1992, the OSCE Minsk Group has been involved in resolving the Karabakh conflict, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the United States and France. Currently, the settlement process is nominally based on the Madrid Principles put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in 2007 in Madrid and updated in 2009.