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KARABAKH ISSUE WILL NOT BE SETTLED IN NEAR FUTURE

Politics

This the opinion of political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan, interview with whom is presented below.

-No serious changes are taking place in the Karabakh settlement. However the Minsk process that has been inactive since 1999 is being restores. As a matter of fact it is a positive step, however it has nothing in common with the Karabakh conflict settlement, which entirely depends on the will of the Azeri and Armenian Presidents.

-Does Armenia have will?

- Presently there is no ground for real negotiations. Today expectations are contrary. Azerbaijan wishes to deport Armenians from Karabakh, Armenia presses for Karabakh’s independence. The Minsk Group is trying to achieved so-called “obliged peace”. However I think the parties are not ready for compromise yet.

-They say that the legitimacy of Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev should be used by the international community in the process of imposing peace. Your comments, please.

-No, it’s not so. First of all no “obliged peace” is not observed for the near future. Second, let’s take Islam Karimov or Alexander Lukashenko. Thus the issue of legitimacy is not political but inner political.