Forecast: The status of Artsakh has all the prospects of becoming a  sensitive element of the international agenda in the South Caucasus

ArmInfo.There have always been contradictions in the positions and approaches of the parties to the conflict settlement around Artsakh. Accordingly, the current  contradictions between Yerevan and Baku on the issue of restoring the  peace process within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group on Artsakh  by no means mean that all the possibilities for resuming negotiations  have been exhausted.

A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by  former head of the Artsakh Republic Foreign Ministry, Ambassador  Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Arman Melikyan.

"I think that if a corresponding desire arises and, most importantly,  it is approved by the OSCE Minsk Group co- chairs in favor of  resuming negotiations, they will resume. I do not exclude that they  will resume with an updated agenda. It is quite possible that some  new subtleties will appear on the negotiating agenda. However, the  formation of this agenda is quite possible. And in the case of  Armenia, it is necessary, "he stressed.

In addition to the Azerbaijani invasion of the territory of Armenia,  illegal and contrary to the trilateral agreements, the detention of  Armenian citizens, some other issues, the issue of the status of  Artsakh should undoubtedly become part of the negotiating agenda,  according to the diplomat. Issues related to the territorial  integrity of Artsakh, separate issues of Shushi and the Hadrut region  of Artsakh.

Another important, in the diplomat's opinion, item on the negotiating  agenda is the emphasis by the Armenian side of the negotiations on  Azerbaijan's violation of the 1994 agreement on an indefinite  ceasefire. According to Melikyan, in this way Baku pushed itself out  of the legal field of the conflict settlement with its own hand.  Not  excluding the possibility of Yerevan signing a peace agreement with  Baku and recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan by  Yerevan, Melikyan considers it a matter of time. And it is for this  reason that the issue of determining the status of Artsakh will be  returned to the agenda. According to the diplomat's forecasts, the  problem of Artsakh's status today has all the prospects for becoming  a sensitive item of the international political agenda in the South  Caucasus.