ArmInfo. Ex-president of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, was willing to make compromises in the Karabakh conflict settlement, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia and currently a senior expert at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, says in an interview with Baltnews.
He says that he was a participant in the OSCE Minsk Group for 4 years and the Group was tackling the issues of Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh. Trubnikov points out that Heydar Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan, as well as the leadership of Nagorno-Karabakh perceived everything in the correct manner. In April 2000 they met in Key West, Florida. "We found a formula: due to the IMF funds, it was possible to ensure a corridor from Azerbaijan to the south, and from Armenia to Stepanakert. The CIS peacekeepers were to ensure the security of the corridor," he notes, adding that though Heydar Aliyev was ready to make a compromise, the political establishment of Azerbaijan, which was against any loss of territories, prevented him from doing it.