“Unfortunately, during the past two decades pursuit of the policy, which seeks to exclude Armenia from the regional energy market, has prevented this valuable capacity to be properly taken advantage of it. Therefore, any participation of Armenia in energy plans is inherently valuable.”
“Third crucial interest is the following—Russia establishes joint troops to control a part of Armenia’s sovereign army, as it convinced by the April war that Armenian army is a sovereign factor. This statement by Pushkov is an edifice.”
To the question whether it’s possible that adoption may be postponed and failed after presidential elections, Papazian replied, “I can’t say, we should see what process the draft will have. We’ll have good news in January.”
“Azerbaijan may get encouraged, however, Russian policy and interests haven’t changed. Russia will pursue its traditional policy, and I don’t consider that changes will be recorded,” the analyst said.
“The most noteworthy in this statement was installation of investigative mechanisms and expansion of Kasprzyk’s office should take place in parallel with content negotiations on the settlement. Maybe many didn’t pay attention to this paragraph, but it was a rather essential observation.”
“Looking forward to Austria’s OSCE chairmanship 2017. We will focus on defusing conflicts, fighting against radicalization and building trust,” Kurz writes.
“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.
According to her, the EU expects implementation of agreements reached at meetings of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Vienna and St. Petersburg.
“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.”
“And we’ve also called for a full and frank acknowledgement of the facts of what happened around those deaths. And that remains our policy. I don’t want to get into terminology or how we referred to it. We acknowledged that 1.5 million Armenians were massacred, as I said, and we want to see a full historical accounting of those events.”
