ArmInfo. Armenia`s participation in the Summit for Democracy was, beyond doubt, a positive step, which was, first of all, in Armenia`s interests, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Armenia`s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan committed a major blunder by not informing the public even of the most shocking realities involving the Nagorno- Karabakh peace process both immediately after his coming to power in 2018 and before the war last autumn, and it is not all a fact that such a blunder will not be repeated, President of the Yerevan Press Club Boris Navasardyan told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.No one is holding any high expectations about Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan`s participation in the Summit for Democracy, Chairman of the Constructive Party of Armenia Andrias Ghukasyan told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The Putin-Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting in Sochi is evidence that Moscow views the forthcoming meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Brussels as an attempt to challenge its monopoly in settling the Armenia-Azerbaijani disputes, Russian expert in the CIS Arkady Dubnov told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Unlike Brussels, Moscow can also offer the parties to the conflict, military-political solutions and scenarios for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Vladimir Evseev, Head of Caucasus Department of the CIS Institute told ArmInfo, commenting on the Pashinyan - Aliyev upcoming meeting scheduled for December 15, is in Brussels.
ArmInfo.A number of events that followed the defeat of Armenia in the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrate, perhaps, an unprecedented strengthening of the strategic link between Ankara and Baku. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Sergei Markedonov, Leading Researcher at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Editor-in- Chief of the Journal of International Analytic.
ArmInfo.Against the background of the lack of a special desire in the collective West to resolve the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, I believe that the Pashinyan- Aliyev meeting scheduled for December 15 on the sidelines of the Eastern Partnership will end in futile discussions. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Alexander Skakov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
ArmInfo. The defeat the Civil Contract party suffered in the December 5 local elections in Gyumri, Vanadzor, Meghri, Ararat and other regions is evidence of a considerable political decline of both the ruling party and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over the last year, the political engineer Vigen Hakobyan told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Talking to Arminfor, the expert in Azerbaijani studies Tatevik Hayrapetyan stated that Armenia must by no means join the 3+2 format. Otherwise, it could be one more blow to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.