(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Akbar Hasanov, Day.az
The trilateral meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow with the
participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted only 20
minutes. Artur Hovhannisyan, member of the Armenian parliament,
secretary of the ruling "Civil Contract" faction, told journalists
about this. He does not believe that the negotiations have failed,
despite their short duration.
Hovhannisyan notes - one must understand that the trilateral
meeting was preceded by negotiations in a bilateral format - the
Russian leader met separately with the Prime Minister of Armenia
and the President of Azerbaijan. This, in his opinion, may explain
the short duration of the final meeting. We remember how frankly
nonsense Pashinyan carried in the presence of all participants in
the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
Constantly switching attention to secondary issues, giving free
rein to his wild imagination and fears, he evoked an ironic smile
not only from the President of Azerbaijan. In the end, even Russian
President Vladimir Putin was forced to stop Nikol Vovaevich. It's
good that he didn't take a baseball cap and a loudspeaker from the
times of the“barbecue revolution” with him to Moscow.
It is clear that, taking into account Pashinyan's attitude,
there was nothing special to talk with him during the trilateral
meeting. After all, he already said what was required - he was
forced to recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,
including the Karabakh economic region and enclaves. Now, it
remains to implement everything that follows from his recognition
by signing a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
For Azerbaijan, it did not and does not matter where exactly
this agreement will be signed. In the end, the tripartite statement
of November 10, 2020 was signed by Pashinyan, no one knows where
and in what condition he was. It wasn't on air at the time. In the
center of Yerevan - too. There, in every sense of the word, the
current Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan accepted criticism. As a
result, they piled on him fairly, and chose the Armenian parliament
for this.
In this building, I note, they often began to practice scuffle,
as a means of the most effective polemic in Armenian. But, what
worries Pashinyan even more, it was there, at one time, that a
terrorist attack took place. Nikol Vovaevich does not want to
become his new victim. Therefore, it twists, as it were. On the one
hand, he understands the weakness of Armenia's position and the
inevitability of signing a peace treaty on conditions that suit
Azerbaijan. On the other hand, he plays with time, in order to
delay the processes.
For what? So the whole point is that the words strategy and
tactics are unknown to Pashinyan. He personally proved this more
than once, making statements in the morning that contradicted his
own words spoken the previous evening. This is such a "corporate
style" of Pashinyan - to bring things to the point of absurdity.
But what works for the internal situation in Armenia will not work
in the negotiation process. So, Pashinyan can't play around for a
long time.
But he and his supporters are trying. For example, Andranik
Kocharyan, head of the parliamentary commission on defense and
security issues, deputy of the ruling "Civil Contract" faction of
Armenia, took the floor. Yes, the one who admitted earlier that
there were more than 11,000 cases of Armenian deserters during the
44-day war, that there were cases of desertion in the Armenian army
throughout that war and this is a consequence of the lack of a
combat-ready reserve.
This time, Kocharyan, who perfectly understands both the results
of the 44-day war and the inevitability of the defeat of Armenia in
the event of a new war, made a statement that "Artsakh" remains in
its place, and we receive assurances from the opposite side about
the territorial integrity of Armenia with specific boundaries. But
that is not all. Kocharyan creatively developed his nonsense by
asserting that "'Artsakh' is the most independent state in the
world."
It is strange that he limited himself to our planet, without
declaring that "Artsakh" is the most gigantic and independent
planet in the Universe. He did not recall the fact that even
Armenia did not recognize this myth.
As well as the fact that Nikol Pashinyan has already announced
the recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,
including the Karabakh economic region. Pashinyan no longer
stutters about Karabakh. But while it is done by his henchmen
deputies.
The same Kocharyan, as we see, brought the "good news" to the
Armenians - the Karabakh economic region of Azerbaijan remains in
place. Where and when he saw the movement of not people, but pieces
of foreign territory is an interesting question. However, even
without an answer to it, it is clear that we have an example of
both Pashinyan and his team maneuvering to the last, delaying the
signing of a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. But the whole point is
that the Armenian side no longer has any room for maneuver.
Everything will be as Azerbaijan reasonably requires.
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