Baku's attempts to change the format and the content of the Karabakh negotiations are doomed to failure, Sergey Minasyan, Head of the Political Studies Department at the Caucasus Institute, has told ArmInfo.
"We see that Azerbaijan failed to influence the current political and diplomatic realities and processes by means of its military aggression initiated in early April. The direct evidence of futility was Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement in Yerevan. Lavrov stressed that Moscow does not consider 'the four- day war' as a basis for changing the current agreements on ceasefire with new ones," the expert stresses.
On April 22, during a joint press conference with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, Sergey Lavrov said that the Karabakh conflict can be resolved in a diplomatic way only, with due regard for the 1994 ceasefire agreement, which should be observed as a timeless agreement.
Minasyan thinks that Germany - the presiding country in the OSCE, as well as the other two OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries share the stand of Moscow and Yerevan.
Minasyan recalls that Armenia did not give up the Kazan arrangements reached by the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan through the mediation of Russia. The expert stresses that the so-called "Kazan document" is a variation of the Madrid Principles. The only difference, he says, is that by promoting the Kazan arrangements, Moscow seeks to consolidate the results of its own diplomats' activities.