Thursday, May 19 2016 09:37

 Baku got the green light to unleash April aggression against Artsakh basing on the principle "take whatever you can, we will not allow your defeat in any case", former foreign minister of Nagorno Karabakh, independent analyst Arman Melikyan stated during discussions held today in the Armenian Center of National and International Studies. 

"Actually this was the result of the April war. Of course, territorial progress of Azerbaijan was not significant but political consequences of the war are of immense significance. Practically negotiation process today develops towards yielding of Artsakh territories in conditions of no claims from the Armenian side related to the territories conquered by Azerbaijan", he emphasized. 

The analyst noted that Sargsyan's calling the territories belonging to Artsakh by its Constitution, as "security belt" is inadmissible. According to his assessment by this the Armenian authorities have prepared ground for yielding the territories to Azerbaijan. 

Commenting on the Vienna agreements Melikyan noted that they registered the results of April aggression initiated by Azerbaijan. According to him one should not have any expectations related to the steps for implementing mechanisms for investigation of incidents and other statements made by the co-chairs in Vienna. 

To note, on May 16 the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents met in Vienna in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State of the United States of America John Kerry, and State Secretary for European Affairs of France Harlem Desir, representing the co- chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group. "They reiterated that there can be no military solution to the conflict. The Co-Chairs insisted on the importance of respecting the 1994 and 1995 ceasefire agreements.

 The Presidents reiterated their commitment to the ceasefire and the peaceful settlement of the conflict. To reduce the risk of further violence, they agreed to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism. The Presidents also agreed to the expansion of the existing Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Office.  Finally, they agreed to continue the exchange of data on missing persons under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to which the Presidents committed during the Paris summit of October 2014. The Presidents agreed on a next round of talks, to be held in June at a place to be mutually agreed, with an aim to resuming negotiations on a comprehensive settlement," the OSCE Minsk Group's statement says.