ArmInfo.Azerbaijan wants to get everything, including control over Stepanakert. Although not so long ago, Baku could only dream of control over the Artsakh Shushi and Hadrut. Head of the Analytical Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation Stepan Grigoryan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
"Having started the war on September 27 last year, Azerbaijan, in my opinion, hoped to seize 3-4 Artsakh regions. But later, events followed a scenario that allowed Baku to get the maximum. Let's just say, thanks to the activity of Turkey and the passivity of Russia. Moreover, to a certain extent, Moscow continues to contribute to the implementation of the Azerbaijani agenda today, "he stressed.
At the same time, Grigoryan noted that the recent events in the Armenian-Russian and Azerbaijani-Russian relations suggest that there are certain disagreements between Moscow and Baku. In particular, according to him, in Moscow there is significant dissatisfaction with the actions of Baku in the direction of the violation of the ceasefire regime in Artsakh, controlled by the Russian peacekeepers. In response, Ankara immediately decided to show support for Baku organizing joint military exercises near the Russian-controlled corridor in Berdzor. This state of affairs, according to the political scientist, has practically nothing to do with Armenia, since only Russian troops are stationed near Berdzor. Moreover, in his opinion, Azerbaijan is challenging Russia with exercises with Turkey under the nose of the Russian military. In his opinion, it is too early to say how Moscow will react to this challenge. First of all, given the rather specific policy of the Russian Federation towards Turkey and Azerbaijan. "In any case, sooner or later Russia will react to Azerbaijan's behavior. And it will react quite harshly and painfully for Baku. And the fact that Moscow has been slow to respond with such a reaction is due to its compromise policy with Turkey and Azerbaijan. Mutually compromise policy, within which, yielding something on this issue, Moscow gets some benefits on other issues, "he stressed.
Grigoryan described the recent statement by Azerbaijani Presidential Aide Hikmet Hajiyev regarding "ongoing discussions around additional legal mechanisms related to the mandate of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh" as part of Baku's blackmail over this issue. And the political scientist considers the silence of Moscow in response to this blackmail to be another manifestation of the RF policy of serving the Azerbaijani agenda.