ArmInfo.The process of resolving the Karabakh conflict is still very far from other negotiations. For example, in Cyprus, Transnistria or even eastern Ukraine. ArmInfo expressed a similar opinion on Carnegie's Foundation for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, Tomas de Waal, a British expert on the Karabakh conflict.
"Unlike Karabakh, in the processes of settling all these conflicts there is a serious format with working groups, a lot of contacts at different levels. There is also a discussion of various household and daily issues that arise. In addition, the societies involved in these conflicts are extremely important their resolution ", - he stressed.
Since 1992, the OSCE Minsk Group has been involved in resolving the Karabakh conflict, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the USA and France. At present, the settlement process is proceeding on the basis of the Madrid Principles put forward by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in 2007 and the Madrid Principles updated in 2009, among other things, providing for the deployment of a peacekeeping force in the conflict zone.In this light, the British expert sees the need for serious and rather long work of the parties and mediators of the Karabakh conflict in order to build this type of negotiations. In the light of the intensification of the negotiation process, de Waal expressed the hope that the parties to the Karabakh conflict will now deal with this.
"The main thing in all of this is the absence of a real negotiation process on the Karabakh issue, at least in the last 5 years. Now the opportunity to resume the process has finally appeared. And this can only be assessed positively," the British expert concluded.On January 23, the third informal meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was held on the margins of the 49th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The meeting lasted an hour and a half. Following the meeting, Pashinyan stated that no specific details were discussed at the meeting.