Panorama.am has conducted an interview with Laurent Leylekian, a French analyst on the European Union and Minor Asia and Huffington Post columnist, over the recent developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process.
The full transcript of the interview is provided below
- Mr Leylekian, I would like to hear your comment about the recent developments of Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, especially after the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers. What can you say on this?
- The first thing I would like to say, maybe underlining, is the lack of transparency. Of course, the negotiation processes are kept secret: we don’t even know what is on the table, so it’s quite difficult to have a definitive opinion. I have the impression, maybe quite pessimistic, of a kind of communication policy from Azerbaijan. My point is the following: Armenia recently experienced this famous ‘velvet revolution’, and Armenia has now quite a good image of the dynamic country which is standing forward, and to clock with this new image of Armenia, Azerbaijan is faking an impression to make some concession to agree to the talks. So, you can see the things two ways: either that’s just a way for Azerbaijan to drive a kind of communication policy in order to create a good image too, or Azerbaijan is really expecting a lack of experience from Mr Pashinyan in the Karabakh issue and is trying to get some gain from this supposed weakness of Armenia. Honestly, I tend to think that this is rather a communication policy.
- After the meeting, the OSCE Minsk Group’s statement was so called positive one, and they stated that the ministers ‘agreed to prepare the population for a peace process.’ Do you think it is possible?
- When the Minks Group says that the countries need to prepare the population for concession, they are in their role, that’s their duty to say that thing, and that’s not the first time they say this. I ...
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