YUNUSOV: KARABAKH PROCESS ACTIVATION CONDITIONED BY INCREASED PRESSURE OF WEST ON YEREVAN AND BAKU

PanARMENIAN.Net - After Ilham Aliyev coming to power in October 2003, a natural pause has appeared in the talks, head of the Department of Conflictology and Migration of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Arif Yunusov stated in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net In his words, a situation has appeared that had already taken place, when after the resignation of Levon Ter-Petrosyan new Armenian President Robert Kocharian stated the line pursued in the talks by the Armenian authorities was incorrect and it was necessary to review many aspects in the negotiation process. "I. Aliyev behaved the same way, stating it was necessary to start the talks from naught. This at first caused a painful response of Armenia, however talks started then and they were even called "the Prague process." That was what I exactly meant when stating in one of interviews in Azerbaijan that a new, recurrent and of course not last stage has outlined in the negotiation process," the expert noted. In his words, "The activation is conditioned with the increase of West pressure upon Armenian and Azeri authorities and the domestic political situation in the two republics," the Azeri political scientist considers.