ArmInfo. Meetings of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan serve to strive to restore the Minsk process. The director of the Caucasus Institute, Alexander Iskandaryan, said this at a press conference. According to him, the meetings of the two leaders can not be accidental. At the same time, he stressed that the current stability in the Karabakh process will not last long. According to the expert, the escalation of the situation is quite real.
As Iskandaryan noted, stability around Karabakh is not entirely beneficial to Baku, which has internal problems. "The Karabakh conflict serves as a good excuse for a population that lives quite poor in a rich country. On the sidelines of the government, no one seriously discusses the issue of the return of Karabakh, only the process of saving <person> Azerbaijan, "the expert said. He also stressed that the Madrid Principles have not lost their relevance. However, he stressed that the formula of "territory for peace" is unrealistic. The expert also noted that the Madrid Principles could not lead to a final settlement of the conflict, and could only create conditions for substantive negotiations.