David Babayan: “It is also an option”
"The Kazan summit did not mark a breakthrough in the Karabakh talks. As it was expected, the Presidents [of Armenia and Azerbaijan] only made a joint statement," Artsakh President's Spokesman David Babayan told A1+.
The Artsakh official stressed that NKR authorities are engaged in comparing facts rather than making predictions.
"We have studied Azerbaijan quite well to know its future steps. There was no breakthrough in Kazan because the negotiations are distorted and Karabakh is left out of the talks. This is not a matter of ambitions. The talks have appeared in an absurd situation in which one of the negotiating parties is obliged to implement an agreement signed by other countries. You cannot come across a similar situation that often. It happens when the negotiator becomes an aggressor who has lost in the war, which is not the case with us," he stressed.
Babayan says Azerbaijan does not want to see the Karabakh conflict settled.
"Azerbaijan is not going to make a single concession. Today Azerbaijan demands something which has never occurred in the history of any state. The country that waged a war and lost in it wants to subject the winner to capitulation in diplomatic relations," he said.
Babayan says Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev proved his words in his recent interview to Euronews ahead of the Kazan meeting.
Isn't it time for Armenian leadership to discontinue the negotiations and demand Karabakh's full engagement in the talks?
In reply to A1+, the NKR President's Spokesman said, "It is also an option, but in the given situation it is not Armenian that should terminate the talks. The mediators should be the first to speak about the inefficiency of the talks."
The international community should assess Armenia's efforts to continue the talks. If the international community fails to reconsider its approach, all the meetings will have the same ending," Babayan concluded.
