Today.Az » Politics » Azeri politicians do not expect break in a meeting of Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers
27 April 2005 [18:30] - Today.Az
Elmar Namazov, the co-founder of the 'New Policy' bloc, a political scientist, considers the forthcoming meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs, Vardan Oskanian and Elmar Mammadyarov, to be held in Frankfurt on Wednesday as senseless.
"Taking into consideration that the sides could not reach agreement on principle issues, as well as the situation on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, one can state with confidence that convenient time for compromises was lost," Namazov told Trend. The favorable time for compromises will come after the elections. "It would be so naive to expect a breakthrough until the parliamentary elections, so it would be talks for the sake of talks," the political scientist underlined.
He marked that on the eve of the elections the Karabakh card becomes more applicable in the domestic struggle. "The opportunities for compromises in Azerbaijan will appear after the elections. It cannot be said about Armenia with strong domestic resistance," he underlined.
Namazov underlined that real breaks in talks will be possible as soon as free and transparent elections are held in Armenia and Azerbaijan and legitimate government is established.
Mubariz Ahmadoglu, the head of the Political Technologies and Innovations Center, also too far from the optimism in the forthcoming meeting of the Armenia and Azerbaijani FMs. Today the OSCE Minsk Group like Armenia is in confusion. Armenia offers to liquidate a notion of 'Prague process', as Armenians associate Prague as place of domination of Azerbaijan. So the last talks were held in London, and the next are to be held in Frankfurt. "They try to satisfy the ambitions of Armenian. So, I don't believe the talks to be effective," Ahmadoglu underlined.
He noted that the initiative in the talks on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution is in Azerbaijan at present. Azerbaijan always preferred the political resolution to the conflict and after the establishment of the economic cooperation. Azerbaijan offers joint use of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan and Armenia in parallel to the talks on political settlement of the conflict. "This is a concrete proposal awaiting a concrete reply, the Armenian side is not to answer it and delays the negotiation processes
In his turn Musabayov said that nothing essential should be expected from the forthcoming meeting of the ministers. "the only result of the talks might be a meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents, to be held in Moscow as part of celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the victory fascism," he underlined.
As to Armenian Minister's avoidance from the direct talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Musabayov clarifies that Oskanian had nothing to say because he did not have authority to t o take any resolution.
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