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AGREEMENT ON NEXT MEETING WILL BE MAJOR SUCCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ALIYEV AND SARGSYAN, EXPERTS SAY
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Nov 18 2013
18 November 2013 - 6:07pm
As can be found out today from two official sources - the press service
of the Armenian President and the Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
from the United States, James Warlick - the event of the year, as part
of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the meeting of
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan,
will be held tomorrow in Vienna. Ilham Aliyev will arrive in the
capital of Austria, after he finishes an official visit to Ukraine
today. Sargsyan will fly to Vienna directly from Yerevan.
In an interview to VK the vice -president of the Union "Consulting-
Analysis- PR", Ismail Agakishiyev, said that the meeting of the
presidents is vital for the continuation of a peaceful settlement of
the Nagorno -Karabakh conflict.
"What are my expectations from the meeting? As we know, the issue
to be discussed is very complicated, especially as people occupying
opposite positions will talk to each other. For this reason, if
they agree to continue the talks and the next meeting, this will
mean a certain understanding and would be a great result of those
negotiations. And in the course of further meetings some progress in
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be achieved," Agakishiyev said.
In turn, the executive director of the Center for Political Science
"North-South", editor-in-chief of VK Alexei Vlasov, expressed the
view that the upcoming meeting between the two presidents "is unlikely
to be fatal", agreeing with Agakishieva that the arrangement for the
next meeting will be the "serious success" of the negotiations.
"The fact is that after 2011 the dynamics of meetings between the
leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan has declined markedly. Under these
conditions, persistent petty conflicts on the line of separation of
Nagorno-Karabakh created psychological and information tension, while
the mediators could not come to agreement on who should take over
the functions of chief moderator of the Karabakh settlement when the
Russian government does not take part in this mission", Vlasov said.
"At the moment there is no clear understanding of how to address this
issue. However, after completion of the electoral cycles in Armenia
and Azerbaijan, there is some hope that Baku and Yerevan will listen
to the opinion of intermediaries and return to the negotiating table,
despite the fact that no innovations after the announcement of the
updated Madrid principles of the Minsk Group were presented", the
editor-in-chief of VK said.
"Interestingly, in the Turkish media a few days ago there was
information that the resumption of the negotiating process was to
coincide with the resumption of negotiations with Yerevan and Ankara
over the so-called protocols. The ratification of these documents has
been shelved, not least because of the desire of Turkey to discuss the
topic of opening borders simultaneously with concessions from Armenia
in the Karabakh process. Currently, this information is presented
as a newspaper duck, if we take as the basis an immediate return of
several regions around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. But the issue
of synchronous resumption of dialogue between Baku and Yerevan and
Yerevan and Ankara does not seem a fantastic dream. But at the moment
it is likely that the main outcome of the meeting between Aliyev and
Sargsyan will be the agreement on a new meeting to be held in the
near future. If the terms of a new summit will remain uncertain, it
will be safe to say that the resumption of a new round of negotiations
has not yet led to any concrete results", Alexei Vlasov summed up.
Looking back, as VK reported, a week earlier, when the date of the
meeting of Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan was still unknown, experts
from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia agreed that the talks in Vienna
would be "a landmark event after two years of silence".
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/47693.html
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Nov 18 2013
18 November 2013 - 6:07pm
As can be found out today from two official sources - the press service
of the Armenian President and the Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
from the United States, James Warlick - the event of the year, as part
of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the meeting of
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan,
will be held tomorrow in Vienna. Ilham Aliyev will arrive in the
capital of Austria, after he finishes an official visit to Ukraine
today. Sargsyan will fly to Vienna directly from Yerevan.
In an interview to VK the vice -president of the Union "Consulting-
Analysis- PR", Ismail Agakishiyev, said that the meeting of the
presidents is vital for the continuation of a peaceful settlement of
the Nagorno -Karabakh conflict.
"What are my expectations from the meeting? As we know, the issue
to be discussed is very complicated, especially as people occupying
opposite positions will talk to each other. For this reason, if
they agree to continue the talks and the next meeting, this will
mean a certain understanding and would be a great result of those
negotiations. And in the course of further meetings some progress in
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be achieved," Agakishiyev said.
In turn, the executive director of the Center for Political Science
"North-South", editor-in-chief of VK Alexei Vlasov, expressed the
view that the upcoming meeting between the two presidents "is unlikely
to be fatal", agreeing with Agakishieva that the arrangement for the
next meeting will be the "serious success" of the negotiations.
"The fact is that after 2011 the dynamics of meetings between the
leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan has declined markedly. Under these
conditions, persistent petty conflicts on the line of separation of
Nagorno-Karabakh created psychological and information tension, while
the mediators could not come to agreement on who should take over
the functions of chief moderator of the Karabakh settlement when the
Russian government does not take part in this mission", Vlasov said.
"At the moment there is no clear understanding of how to address this
issue. However, after completion of the electoral cycles in Armenia
and Azerbaijan, there is some hope that Baku and Yerevan will listen
to the opinion of intermediaries and return to the negotiating table,
despite the fact that no innovations after the announcement of the
updated Madrid principles of the Minsk Group were presented", the
editor-in-chief of VK said.
"Interestingly, in the Turkish media a few days ago there was
information that the resumption of the negotiating process was to
coincide with the resumption of negotiations with Yerevan and Ankara
over the so-called protocols. The ratification of these documents has
been shelved, not least because of the desire of Turkey to discuss the
topic of opening borders simultaneously with concessions from Armenia
in the Karabakh process. Currently, this information is presented
as a newspaper duck, if we take as the basis an immediate return of
several regions around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. But the issue
of synchronous resumption of dialogue between Baku and Yerevan and
Yerevan and Ankara does not seem a fantastic dream. But at the moment
it is likely that the main outcome of the meeting between Aliyev and
Sargsyan will be the agreement on a new meeting to be held in the
near future. If the terms of a new summit will remain uncertain, it
will be safe to say that the resumption of a new round of negotiations
has not yet led to any concrete results", Alexei Vlasov summed up.
Looking back, as VK reported, a week earlier, when the date of the
meeting of Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan was still unknown, experts
from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia agreed that the talks in Vienna
would be "a landmark event after two years of silence".
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/47693.html