ArmInfo. Each of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and in fact, the main political forces in Armenia itself continue to play their own games around Artsakh. Former Prime Minister of Armenia, leader of the Republic party Aram Sargsyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
In his conviction, "Moscow continues to push through the Lavrov's plan today, and the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Turkey continue to connect the possibility of promoting the negotiation process with the wishes of Moscow. He believes that in the interests of Armenia is the full coordination of Russian approaches to Artsakh with the other co-chairs. By the way, the French president recently announced his readiness to be with the Armenian people and Artsakh, "the politician emphasized. Sargsyan considers unacceptable a situation in which Russia's strategic ally Russia continues to insist on the "Lavrov's plan" in conditions when Armenia has already ceded everything that was possible. Moreover, the April 2016 war, the politician determines the refusal of the then President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan to continue to be controlled by Moscow.
Commenting on the recent statement by former President Robert Kocharyan about the need to transfer the initiative in the negotiations to Artsakh, the politician assessed it as unrealistic, due to the absence of Stepanakert at the negotiating table. At the same time, Sargsyan completely excludes the situation in which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan may not have a plan, vision for a Artsakh issue settlement .
"Under the conditions when the Madrid principles and Lavrov's plan openly express dissatisfaction with both of these documents are rather risky. The Armenian Prime Minister is risky, but I would like him to feel the risks and the main consequences. We may find ourselves in a situation where the world appears to be the non-constructive side of the negotiations. No one can force us to anything. But, at the same time, it is necessary to realize the value of peace, the absence of victims. In this light, we should be ready at some point to begin cooperation with Azerbaijan, "Sargsyan concluded.
Since 1992, the OSCE Minsk Group, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the USA and France, has been engaged in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Currently, the settlement process is nominally proceeding on the basis of the "Madrid principles" put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in 2007 in Madrid and updated in 2009, which, among other things, envisage the deployment of a peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone.