Discussing Nagorno-Karabakh’s Participation In Negotiations Is Alrea

DISCUSSING NAGORNO-KARABAKH’S PARTICIPATION IN NEGOTIATIONS IS ALREADY AN ACHIEVEMENT: ANALYST

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Political analyst Ruben Hakobyan considers the discussion of
Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in yesterday’s meeting in Sochi
with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to be a certain achievement. "I
consider Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in any way to be positive,
since that will change the rules of the game," he said, while speaking
to journalists today.

According to the analyst, if the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is resolved,
the Armenian-Turkish border will open in and of itself. The guarantee
in Armenian-Turkish relations, according to Hakobyan, is the U.S.,
while in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, it’s Russia. Furthermore,
yesterday’s meeting showed that Russia "is a little bit more of a
co-chair than the others [U.S., France]," said Hakobyan.

The analyst also added that in the last two decades, Armenia’s inner
political life, as well as just about everything else, has been tied
with the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.