PEACE AGREEMENT IS OUT OF QUESTION

PanARMENIAN.Net - Neither Yerevan nor Baku found Eral's information reliable, since his version looked too unreal. Both the co-chairmen of the Mink group and the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have more than once said that the negotiations have not reached a proper stage to sign any document. By the way, the Turkish diplomat did not mention who exactly were going to sign the document on the 10th of May. If he meant the presidents who will be in Moscow, then they will have the chance to see each other on the 9th and not on the 10th of May. Anyway, the latest announcement of Ilham Aliev makes believe that he does not intend to meet with Robert Kocharyan during the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of victory. Moreover, it is doubtful whether the presidents will meet in Warsaw, where on May 15 they will take part in the summit of the leaders of EC member-states.

If the former OSCE ambassador in Turkey meant the possibility of signing a document by the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, then that version is also absurd. The thing is that the co-chairmen of the Minsk group have not yet informed Vardan Oskanyan about the content of the meeting with Elmar Mamedyarov. So even if we suppose that the Frankfurt meeting has really brought some progress, no one has agreed on any details with the political leadership of Armenia. In this case who is going to sign the document if neither the presidents nor the foreign presidents of the two countries are aware of that?

There is still another strange thing in the announcement of the Turkish diplomat. According to the former ambassador, the document is going to be based on the principle of stage-by-stage settlement of the conflict. It should be reminded that Yerevan and Stepanakert have twice rejected that way of conflict settlement. Nevertheless, the mediators still continue suggesting various settlement schemes, which again suppose several stages of mutual concessions from the two parties. However, Yalim Eral has another version. He clarifies that according to the agreement reached, the Armenian party will let Azerbaijan have five from the seven controlled security zones, but he does not mention what will Azerbaijan do. This comes to prove once again that the information of Eral is far from the truth. The latest announcements of the defense and foreign ministers of Armenia confirm that Yerevan excludes the possibility of any unilateral concessions.

It should be only be added that the official sources of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed rare unanimity in denying the information of the Turkish diplomat. It is a pity that the opinions of Yerevan and Baku coincide only in such kind of questions.

Artyom Yerkanyan