"Baku possesses no levers"
"The West is the Godfather of a new phase of Armenian-Turkish relations," says Republican (HHK) Party MP Armen Ashotyan.
Azerbaijan has been allotting resources to western companies for a long time but the country has received no political dividends in return and was unable to change their stances towards the Karabakh conflict settlement.
The only country having a vivid stance towards the Karabakh issue is Turkey which has broken all ties with Armenia because of the Karabakh conflict.
Azerbaijan's hysteric response to the normalization of Armenian-Turkish ties implies that Baku possesses neither political, nor economic and military levers to preserve the status quo in the Karabakh issue.
Speaking about the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun's withdrawal from the coalition, Armen Ashotyan associates the party's approaches with three behind-the-scenes issues: the pressure from the Diaspora resulted by misinformation about the Armenian-Turkish relations, the recent developments in Armenia's foreign policy and finally the ARF's intention to run in the elections of 2012 as an opposition force."
