Expert: Armenia should choose Western track to solve existing  problems

ArmInfo.The Azerbaijani side is not ready for peace. This was stated by political scientist Hrachya  Arzumanyan, commenting on the results of the Moscow meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan - Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev.

According to the expert, the enemy used and keeps on using military  tools, trying to force Armenia to make the decisions it desires. And  in this context, nothing new has happened in Moscow. He pointed out  that Armenia is in a state of war with Azerbaijan, and for this  reason it is impossible to talk about trust between the parties, and  even more so, about the search for mutually acceptable solutions.  Every time the Armenian side declares its intention to adhere to the  peace agenda, Azerbaijan tries to solve the existing problems by  force.

,  Arzumanyan emphasized, adding that there is nothing new for the  Armenian people on the Moscow track. It was on this platform that the  tripartite statement of November 9, 2020 actually appeared, as a  result of which lands were lost, when statements were made that there  is  no more the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh, it is allegedly  resolved, and Armenia must agree to give up Syunik and Artsakh. This  is the policy pursued by Russia and Turkiye. "It should just be borne  in mind that Russia and Turkey are weakening, which gives Armenia  opportunities that should be used on the second track - the western  one, where Yerevan can find other solutions that would help preserve  the sovereignty of Armenia and the security of Nagorno-Karabakh," the  expert noted.

He added that Moscow is beginning to show a Eurasian neo-imperial  approach, in fact not recognizing the independent status of Ukraine,  Moldova, Kazakhstan, and this is nothing new. But there is another  approach in which small states have the opportunity to protect their  sovereignty, and this protection should be sought on the western  track. "But let's see what choice the Armenian authorities will  make," the political scientist said.

Arzumanyan noted that even in the issue of the Zangezur corridor,  Moscow's support for Baku is obvious, and, according to the expert,  there is nothing new in this either. The dispute itself between  Aliyev and Pashinyan at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council  confirms what has been said in Armenia over the past three years.  "Obviously, Azerbaijan and Russia are strategic allies, it's just  that there is no third ally of both states, Turkey, at the  negotiating table. It was these allies who organized the military  campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 in order to form the security  architecture in the South Caucasus in which Armenia, as a sovereign  state, is simply destroyed, becoming either a province or a vilayat>,  Arzumanyan emphasized, adding that such a development of events was  publicly announced before. In this context, the Armenian Foreign  Ministry should use this statement to show that Russia is not a  mediator, but an ally of the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem. "I am very  glad that these days Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu  announced that Syunik is Turkish lands. Thus, although not publicly,  Turkey has joined the strategic alliance of Russia and Azerbaijan>,  the political scientist stressed.