“The negotiations held under the Madrid principles are doomed to failure from the very beginning,” Azerbaijani political expert Arif Yunus said.
He was commenting on Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s statement that “Armenia and Azerbaijan are developing their proposals for the document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the preamble to the document has been agreed upon.”
“It is difficult to judge the essence of this preamble given that the information in this regard is very scarce. We learn about outcomes of the Sochi meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents from the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,” Yunus added.
“I believe no documents had been adopted and the Sochi meeting was complete failure. The statement that the preamble, which is only an introduction to any international instrument, to the document on resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has been agreed upon is ridiculous, especially because the Madrid principles, under which now settlement process is carried out, is a document of just a page and half. So, the statements that the preamble has been negotiated is nothing but an attempt by organizers of the presidents’ Sochi meeting to “save face.”
“It would be more diplomatic if a statement in the OSCE Minsk MG style were made after meeting saying that “the meeting marked another step towards resolving the Karabakh problem,” the political scientist noted.
“Of course, a certain part of society of the conflicting states hoped for progress in the Sochi meeting. But the time showed that they are not justified. I note that the negotiations which are held under the Madrid principles are doomed to failure, because they imply solution of the problem between Azerbaijan and Armenia not in a right way. Therefore, predictions of the experts, who hope for progress in the Karabakh conflict, will not be fulfilled,” Yunus said.
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