Armenia and Artsakh should have no big expectations from the St.Petersburg meeting of the Presidents, Hrachya Arzumanyan, Head of the Stepanakert-based "Ashkharh" Center for Strategic Studies, has told ArmInfo.
"The thing is that Moscow has lost the opportunity and the right to tackle the issue of Karabakh conflict settlement all by itself. The most vivid evidence is Vladimir Putin's recent statement that the United States is the only superpower in the world. There are also other important indicators," Arzumanyan says.
The Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents' talks scheduled for June 20 in St.Petersburg are the continuation of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents' meeting on May 16 in Vienna, where Sargsyan and Aliyev pointed out the need to resolve the Karabakh conflict peacefully. To note, on June 19-24, Azerbaijan is holding military exercises.
In this light, the analyst thinks it is important to realize that Armenian people will fight alone and should therefore rely on themselves and their own army only. History knows numerous cases, when the neutral observers and allies can become adversaries.
Arzumanyan is convinced that now the key and crucial assessments for the future should be formed inside Armenia. In particular, it is necessary to answer the question what should be revised in the Armenian statehood, society, people, Armenians worldwide. The rest is insignificant, he says.
"I am sure Azerbaijan is experiencing similar processes and drawing lessons from the April war. The ongoing military exercises in the country demonstrate that Baku has not changed its strategy and that it is playing its own game and has no single reason to revise the rules of that game," Arzumanyan says.