‘AZERBAIJAN NOT TO PLAY NEGOTIATION GAMES WITH ARMENIA’, ANALYST
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May 11 2010
Azerbaijan
Rasim Musabeyov ‘Azerbaijan is not going to play the negotiation
games with Armenia which is correct’, said political analyst.
The negotiations between Defense Ministers of Azerbaijan and Russia
Safar Abiyev and Anatoli Serdjukov held in Baku today, as well as the
upcoming meeting of Russian and Turkish Presidents Dmitry Medvedev
and Abdullah Gul are aimed at deblocking the deadlocked situation in
the Karabakh process, hampering the development of the Russian-Turkish
relations, political scientist Rasim Musabeyov considers.
Russian Defense Minister Safar Abiyev arrived in Baku Tuesday where he
met his Azerbaijani counterpart Safar Abiyev and was received by the
country’s president. At the meeting with Abiyev the sides discussed
prospects of development of the military and technical cooperation
and the military and political situation in the region. The sides
also discussed the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
Dmitri Medvedev will pay an official visit to Turkey on May 11-12.
‘Armenians do not want to return the occupied lands to Azerbaijan. The
Armenian leadership does not dare to say ‘no’ to Azerbaijan regarding
the updated Madrid principles seeing the way out in continuation of
senseless talks within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. However,
Azerbaijan does not want to help Armenians create the visibility of
talks’, he said.
He reminded that President Aliyev rejected meeting Serzh Sargsyan in
Moscow while Foreign Minister Mammadyarov refused to meet the Armenian
counterpart in Brussels as these meetings are senseless without
Armenia’s clear answer to the proposal to accept Madrid principles.
‘Azerbaijan is not going to play the negotiation games with Armenia
which is correct’, Musabeyov said.
The Azerbaijani president made it clear that war is an alternative
to the peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict and this is not
a senseless rhetoric", he said.
According to Musabeyov, during Medvedev’s meeting with the Turkish
leadership, the Russian president will be informed about the risks
posed by the unsettled Karabakh conflict for the Russian-Turkish
relations.