American expert: Minsk Group has exhausted its potential

"The Minsk Group has exhausted its potential. A fault of the Minsk Group process has been the inherent interests of all three members", Senior Associate of the American Foreign Policy Council Wayne Merry told ArmInfo.

According to the expert, if mediation were really intended, the mediators should have been neutrals with no direct engagement with the conflicting parties. The Minsk Group is somewhat like using a pair of mothers in law to try to resolve a marital dispute.

"What is needed is old-fashioned great power collusion by Washington and Moscow. Mediation is not enough. Armenian and Azeri political leaders will need outsiders to blame for giving up the "national dream" and accepting reality. Even if the two great powers cannot entirely impose a peace, they can certainly move the parties away from the status quo decisively in favour of compromise and settlement", the American expert resumed.

/ArmInfo/