Forecast: Attempts to bring Yerevan and Baku to the negotiating table  will continue

ArmInfo. Attempts to bring Yerevan and Baku to the negotiating table and to give  constructiveness to the Armenian-Azerbaijani dialogue as much as  possible will continue.  A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo  by president of the Yerevan Press Club Boris Navasardyan. 

"In fact, there is no more convenient and constructive format for  Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations than bilateral negotiations. In  this sense, the role of the EU and President of the European Council  Charles Michel personally should be reduced to establishing a direct  dialogue, respectively, direct agreements between Armenia and  Azerbaijan ", he remarked.

According to the expert, time will show how much Brussels will be  able to achieve this goal. Today, to our great regret, the main  issues are being resolved in a different format, completely not  proceeding from the interests of Armenia, within the framework of  which the Russian Federation, with a certain participation of Turkey,  reaches agreements with Azerbaijan. In some cases, Iran is also  informed about them. After that, ready-made solutions to this or that  problem of the conflict are presented to Armenia.

According to Navasardyan, against this background, the EU is making  real efforts towards achieving a comprehensive solution to the  Karabakh conflict. However, it does not have enough leverage to  achieve that goal, which, in turn, is due exclusively to the energy  cooperation between the EU and Azerbaijan. In this light, Brussels  cannot offer something else to Baku.

Commenting on the absence of any role of the OSCE Minsk Group in the  settlement of the conflict, the expert explained this fact by the  presence of more influential players, primarily Russia and Turkey.  Ankara has always opposed MG, and Moscow does so, realizing the  impossibility of finding a common language with Washington and Paris  in the current Ukrainian geopolitical realities. "After the results  of the 44-day war and starting from the war in Ukraine, Moscow is  obviously not interested in the participation of OSCE Minsk Group  partners in the negotiations on Artsakh. And the influence of Russia  and Turkey is quite enough to prevent the return of France and the  United States to the settlement process as mediators," he summed up.