If Baku doesn't want to hold talks with Stepanakert, Yerevan will negotiate with Ankara but not with Baku

PanARMENIAN.Net - ARF Dashnaktsutyun estimates highly the activities of the Armenian President for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun, vice speaker of the RA National Assembly Vahan Hovhannisian told reporters today.



However, he said, Nagorno Karabakh should join the talks. "We are told that Azerbaijan's concession is peace. But "peace for peace" formula doesn't reflect the reality, since mutual compromises should have a different shape. Azerbaijan avoids this variant by all means. If Baku doesn't want to hold talks with Stepanakert, Yerevan will negotiate with Ankara but not with Baku. Unfortunately, Turkey is a member of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement and influences on the process. Official Yerevan and Diaspora should counteract this and urge to expel Turkey from the Minsk Group as an interested party," Mr Hovhannisian said.



The decision to convene in Minsk an international conference on Nagorno Karabakh was taken March 24, 1992 at the extraordinary sitting of the Council of Ministers of the OSCE member states. Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Russia, U.S., Turkey, France, Czechia and Sweden formed the Minsk contact group to settle the armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.



Presently, the MG is chaired by Russia, U.S. and France.



Till 1997 Nagorno Karabakh was a full party in the talks. Now talks are held between Armenia and Azerbaijan.