“I personally know Samvel Babayan, yet years ago I got acquainted with him, thus I can share with my personal impressions.In my opinion, Samvel Babayan in no way is a politician, even by 1 percent, he is an ordinary militarian, thus he has no political perspectives,” Modest Kolerov said.
“Since the beginning of 2016, the OSCE German chairmanship repeatedly stressed how important the formation of a mutual trust atmosphere is in the line of contact, and the important component of this issue is the expansion of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk’s office.
Pavel Felgenhauer, Russian military analyst, told “168 Hours” both Vienna meeting, and to all probabilities, the forthcoming meeting as well will end with no results. According to him, political will is necessary for ceasefire and nothing else.
The Iranian Embassy in Armenia issued a statement denying the announcements which were attributed to the Iranian Ambassador in Baku, which were circulated by Azerbaijani media.
The war was a great opportunity for us to understand our friends and opponents, and draw serious conclusions from here if we don’t want to lose former victories. What interests do our current strategic partner Russia and other EEU partners pursue?
Russia and the West are approaching to geo-political and regional conflict culmination period, which tends to more sharpen the situation by rising threats for military accidents of yet local confrontation, which, probably, will more deepen the crisis between these two poles. In this complicated reality the USA and Russia formally are partners within Minsk Group, and if it’s maintained, it’ll become one of Russia-USA confrontation platforms.
“Escalation of the military conflict obviously is not favorable for Russia as it makes the latter choose between responsibilities of a mediator, Armenia’s military ally and striving for further rapprochement with Azerbaijan. Supply of up-to-date offensive weapons to Baku have broken the balance, significantly increasing the probability of this scenario. “
“The aim of the Azerbaijani attacks were these negotiations, since they hoped with such means the Minsk Group would make a proposal of giving Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan, however, they did not reach their goal, and Azerbaijan was forced to take part in this meeting and agreed over the installation of ceasefire mechanisms,” Minister said.
“Russia has never fought and will never fight in Karabakh instead of us,” Babayan said, stressing that Russia will always strive to develop good relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“You and Serzh Sargsyan stated that in case of military operations NK independence will be recognized. We faced the April four-day war and lost 800 hectares, what should be considered a wide-scale operation so that we took steps?” Pashinyan asked.
