View from Baku: Pashinyan actually invited Azerbaijan to recognize  the accession of Karabakh with a "corridor" to Armenia in exchange  for other territories

ArmInfo. With his statement of  August 5, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan actually invited  Azerbaijan to recognize the accession of Karabakh with a "corridor"  to Armenia in exchange for the other territories. MP of Azerbaijan's  parliament, political scientist Rasim Musabekov expressed a similar  opinion to ArmInfo.

"This is the main meaning of his statement. In fact, Yerevan directly  says that it will discuss the accession of some part of the "occupied  territories" to Armenia with the possibility of liberating another.  In other words, calls on us to enter into negotiations on the  division of "our territories". In a statement, the Azerbaijani  Foreign Ministry raised the question, what does Pashinyan mean? But  the Armenian Foreign Ministry, instead of a concrete answer, actually  answered with a propaganda salvo, "he said.

At a meeting held on Renaissance Square in Stepanakert on August 5,  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described Artsakh as an  integral part of Armenia. "Artsakh is Armenia and that's final!," the  prime minister quoted the words of the Armenian statesman and  military leader Leonid Azgaldyan.

In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan issued a  statement, the general essence of which was that the orientation of  Pashinyan's statements to the internal audience does not give the  Armenian Prime Minister reason to voice calls for the annexation of  the  Azerbaijan region.

"The statement of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry clearly shows  Azerbaijan's inability to observe the basic rules of politeness and  decency, to maintain the norms of civilized behavior between nations,  especially between the parties involved at the highest level in the  extremely complex and delicate process of resolving the conflict. The  personal attacks contained in the statement are regrettable and  testify to a culture of intolerance and hatred of the Armenian people  in Azerbaijan, led and encouraged by the authorities, " Armenian  MFA's response statement says.

According to Musabekov's estimates, with a similar statement, the  Armenian Foreign Ministry is trying to turn arrows on Azerbaijan and  evade the qualification of Pashinyan's statement on the ownership of  Karabakh. On the other hand, the Armenian Foreign Ministry, in the  opinion of the political scientist, actually stated that the words of  the Armenian Prime Minister in the official position of Yerevan do  not change anything, and there's no need to talk about torpedoing the  negotiation agenda.  According to Musabekov, Baku intends to demand  the reaction of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group to the speech  of the Armenian prime minister. According to him, the co-chairs  should be asked about the feasibility of further negotiations in view  of Armenia's similar position.  "In the end, the status of Karabakh  is part of the negotiation agenda. Meanwhile, Pashinyan's statement  means that this status has already been determined for him. Are   there any possibalitties for negotiation, it will become clear after  the reaction of the co-chairs and their subsequent proposals. If  there are, for further negotiations , then, of course, they must be  continued, "Musabekov concluded.