ArmInfo.Negotiations on Karabakh go around in circles. In any case, all the latest statements and positions of Yerevan and Baku speak about this, in particular, the statement voiced by the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan from the UN rostrum. The head of the Armenian Center for American Studies Suren Sargsyan, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
Speaking at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly on September 27, Pashinyan once again voiced the necessity of the solution to the Karabakh problem to be acceptable for the peoples of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. "The government of Azerbaijan presents the conflict as a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We do not agree with this interpretation. This is not a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan on territorial claims. It is about people and their right to live in their homeland as their ancestors lived for centuries. Unfortunately, the Azerbaijani authorities do not want to talk with these people and negotiate with them, because they need territories, not people, "territories without people," the prime minister said.
In response, the head of the foreign policy department of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan, Hikmet Hajiyev, stated the following. "The leadership of Armenia declares that the conflict should be resolved in a format acceptable to Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. However, the parties to the conflict are Armenia and Azerbaijan. There are Armenian and Azerbaijani communities in the Nagorno- Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, the Karabakh conflict has no other model for settlement, except as part of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. "
"Thus, it is not necessary to expect Baku's agreement on the next proposals of Prime Minister Pashinyan in the form of such formulations. A settlement on the basis of similar proposals acceptable to everyone is impossible. First of all, due to the reluctance of the Azerbaijani leadership to go to any settlement format other than the format of the implied decision of the problem exclusively within the territorial integrity of this country, "he stressed.
In this light, according to the expert, it is necessary to be honest and to realize that the settlement process is at best moving in a circle. First of all, due to the impossibility of reaching agreement between the parties to the negotiations on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. According to Sargsyan, agreement between Yerevan and Baku can be achieved both in the issue of territories, and in the matter of opening borders, communications, etc. It cannot be achieved only on the issue of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, which makes it impossible to resolve the problem as a whole.