ArmInfo.Azerbaijan's concern about the recent economic weakening of Turkey leads to the strengthening of the positions of the Russian Federation in the region and in Azerbaijan itself. Political scientist Stepan Danielyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Based on the latest statements of Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan, the maximum expectations from today's Pashinyan-Putin-Aliyev meeting is a statement on the start of the process of delimitation and demarcation of the Armenia-Azerbaijan borders as well as the formation of an appropriate interstate commission. Stepan Safaryan, founder of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Sooner or later, taking into account the general situation in the region, as well as the prospects of unblocking regional communications, negotiations in all problematic areas of Armenian-Turkish relations will become a necessity. Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The NATO-member Turkey should not be expected to suddenly announce its intention to commit a second Armenian genocide. And even if anyone could expect this to happen, such expectations would only be evidence of that one`s primitive thinking, Dean of the Faculty pf Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University, Professor Ruben Melkonyan told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. "I think the announced meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders, Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev, in Brussels scheduled for December 15 is, in fact, an invitation of the conflicting parties to a talk.
ArmInfo.The reason for the planned trilateral meeting in Sochi, Russia, is Russian President Vladimir Putin`s desire to prevent any agreement between Armenia`s Premier Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels this December, without coordinating the agreement with him, Hovsep Khurshudyan, Chairman of the Free Citizen NGO, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Russia and Turkey are taking hat - and where - it is easier for them to take. And it is quite normal because it is quite practical, Russian expert in the CIS Arkady Dubnov told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Armenia and Azerbaijan are already exchanging territories. This logical conclusion can be drawn from a number of factors, including the Azerbaijani troops` incursion into Armenia`s territory on November 16. It should also be noted that the sides are saying one thing, while doing quite different things, the analyst Saro Saroyan told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.t seems not possible to reach an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the current conditions, against the backdrop of a complex of existing contradictions and disagreements in the understanding by the parties to the conflict of the proposed conditions for the settlement of relations. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Orientalist, Professor David Hovhannisyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Of course, Armenia cannot start the process of delimitation and demarcation of borders with Azerbaijan just like that, at the suggestion of the RF Ministry of Defense. Commenting on the statement of Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on consent to three proposals of the RF Ministry of Defense, Head of the "For the sake of the Republic" party Arman Babajanyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.