THE FORMAT OF OSCE MINSK GROUP WILL NOT CHANGE Gagik Harutyunyan’s interview with IA REGNUM
The meeting of the president of Armenia Serj Sargsyan and the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, which will take place on January 28 in Zurich, does not bode any changes for the negotiation process on the arrangement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and this is only the next scheduled meeting in a row of such meetings. This was said by the director of “Noravank” foundation Gagik Harutyunyan in the interview with IA REGNUM.
In the expert’s opinion the regular meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which was arranged by co-Chairman states of OSCE Minsk group, can not be also regarded as the last one or summarizing or the “swan song” for this format as many analysts think. “I do not see any signs showing that any change of the Minsk group may take place”, - mentioned Gagik Harutyunyan. According to him there are no reasons for France to leave that format. He mentioned that currently the interest of France in the arrangement of Nagorno-Karabakh increased and this corresponds to the current policy of that country in South Caucasus.
It should be mentioned that recently there had been rumours spread around political scientists about the change of the structure of the OSCE Minsk group, and they did not exclude the possibility of the withdrawal of France from that format. And as for the quit of the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew J. Bryza it was supposed to be connected with the personnel reshuffle in the administration of the new president of the United States Barak Obama.
Let us remind you that the negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict arrangement between the presidents of Armenia an Azerbaijan will take place on January 28 in Zurich. The agreement of the meeting was reached during the visit of OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen.
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