“Co-Chairs complicated the Karabakh conflict”
Former NKR Foreign Minister, political scientist Arman Melikyan doesn't exclude that the "status-quo" of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict favors the U.S. as well.
""Perhaps the status-quo for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution favors somebody, but the current state doesn't guarantee stability." Melikyan says this announcement by U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Robert Bradtke serves as grounds for his statement.
Arman Melikyan believes that the U.S. is one of the exceptional countries that can turn its wishes into a reality.
Mr. Melikyan doesn't deny that the current "status-quo" favors Armenia and the NKR in that Armenia still doesn't know how to continue to defend its interests. The political scientist says it is absurd for Azerbaijan to speak about recognition of the NKR's independence.
"Azerbaijan will never recognize the Karabakh people's right to self-determination out of the framework of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity."
Arman Melikyan agrees with the U.S. Co-Chair that the "status-quo" will not guarantee stability, but deems it necessary to recall that nothing can guarantee stability in the world today and that Bradtke's statement could be accepted as the U.S.'s message for possible changes.
Arman Melikyan had trouble commenting on Bradtke's statement that the Karabakh conflict is not frozen, but ongoing. "First, we have to describe when it is frozen and when it is ongoing." The political scientist doesn't exclude that the U.S. Co-Chair was referring to the ongoing killings on the border or the potential danger of a war.
The former NKR foreign minister shares the view that compared to previous years, the Karabakh conflict has become much more complicated. "Yes, the Co-Chairs didn't spare any efforts to make it complicated. If they had focused on the simplest truths, there wouldn't have been a labyrinth."
