“There is no alternative to intensive negotiations. As a result of these very negotiations unexpected agreements will be reached, thus, the mediators should provide those dynamic negotiations not allowing any of the sides to toughen its position,” Macfarlane said.
“We have talked to the PM on this rather seriously, and he is ready to pass a new quality to the fight against corruption. And the steps he anticipates to take to that end will manifest his political will. Anti-corruption independent management should be developed. A new phenomenon will be recorded as well, that illegal enrichment was regarded as a type of crime.”
“Have we limited us in relating to EU in doing trade, socializing, making investments, by membership to EEU?—of course, not. In other Government actions plans the EU is on the same place. Moreover, we rather openly talked to our EU partners, who also expressed such a concern.”
“Why am I against? I consider this isn’t a solution, as I think it fosters people’s approaches that they may escape to another country and then be back and pay the money. As a Defense Minister I can’t be enthusiastic about it,” the Minister said.
The Armenian Premier gave a laconic answer, “Yes”. Afterwards the PM stated again the gas tariff will not rise after election and Armenia will not compensate with any strategic facility.
“I don’t consider Germany’s co-chairmanship completely lost, as two presidential meetings have been launched in that period, proposals, security mechanisms have been submitted, around which works still continue in OSCE. If a meeting is launched in Hamburg, maybe it’ll be possible to come to an agreement around these proposals,” Rahr said.
Trump may have asked Pence to make the call to Sargsyan due to his familiarity with Armenian issues during his 10-year tenure in the House of Representatives.
“Expressed by the PM’s style: do I believe in Aliyev’s changing? I don’t. Will there be revolution in Azerbaijan? I don’t know. Would world countries want that? Maybe. However, there are other interests there, and by realizing that those interests are more important at the moment, than NK issue settlement, we should understand our role. Do we have oil interests there? No.”
Touching upon the deadlock in NK conflict settlement process, Russian military expert said, “Definitely, NK conflict should be, first and foremost, settled through political means, thus, all the sides, including Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, other sides interested in the settlement, should manage political dialogue. It’s another issue that it may last for 10-15-20-50 years. It’s somehow natural, but more preferable, than war.”
“Why is Aliyev making noise? It’s very clear. He makes noise, as in negotiations he isn’t in a favorable condition, he entered into a deadlock due to the very Azerbaijan, and the international public urges him to recognize Artsakh’s independence,” Eduard Sharmazanov said.
