Vladimir Kazimirov: It`s impossible to resolve the issue of security  and the fate of Karabakh people behind their backs

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.