Throughout the negotiation history we have registered one progress the 1994 treaty on ceasefire, Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan stated at the conference of Artsakh’s Friends in Stepanakert.
“There is a document with which that time president of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev authorized the vice speaker of their parliament to meet with corresponding official of Nagorno Karabakh and prepare the meeting of leaders of the two countries. The remarkable thing in this document is that it is formed in Russia and while speaking about Artsakh the NKR (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) abbreviation was used. This document was signed by Heydar Aliyev,” Kocharyan said, adding that Azerbaijan accepted Artsakh as a negotiating side and conducted talks with it.
Now as far as Azerbaijan avoids from direct negotiations with Artsakh and moreover pretends that there is no such party it means it does not want any progress in the negotiations.
“Without Artsakh any progress in the negotiations is impossible. No one is authorized to speak on behalf of Artsakh. In reality Azerbaijan just pretends that it is negotiations, and implements propaganda war to prove the international community that here it is not the matter of right to self-determination but just territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Kocharyan said.