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If the Zangazur [(Zangezur)] corridor is not opened, it will be very difficult to talk about peace. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said this at the IX Global Baku Forum under the motto “Challenges to the Global World Order,” APA reports.

“The soonest decision to open the Zangazur corridor is one of the basic elements of future peace in the region. If we are not given that entry-exit, it will be very difficult to talk about peace, and all the efforts of Azerbaijan aimed at normal coexistence, normal neighborhood with Armenia will be in vain. This is another important issue, and Azerbaijan has the right to demand it. The Armenian government has signed a corresponding statement.

Second, Azerbaijan, as a country that won the war and suffered from the occupation, has a moral right to demand,” Aliyev said.

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The West has stopped working with Russia within the framework of Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement  and the process of settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Russian political scientist Sergey Markedonov stated this Thursday during a conference held in Yerevan.

According to the analyst, the Karabakh conflict has always been very different from the other conflicts in the post-Soviet expanse.

“Unlike other problematic cases, Russia and the West have always cooperated in the Karabakh issue. But today we see a change in this logic. The OSCE Minsk Group has ceased to function at the level of co-chairs. The West does not want to work with Russia. Stigmatization occurs in many directions. The formation of a new—Brussels—format for the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations is visible,” Markedonov said, referring to the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders’ meeting mediated by the head of the European Council.

From the point of view of the Russian political scientist, it is paradoxical that Moscow does not deny everything the head of the European Council says.

“The important thing is something else: Moscow said all this in the beginning. However, there is an impression that Russia does not exist at all and has not been in the negotiation process, whereas Russia has developed many more options for a settlement,” Markedonov assured.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) vice-chairman responsible for foreign affairs has confirmed that the normalization of Ankara-Yerevan relations is linked to Baku-Yerevan relations.

“We act within the framework of cooperation with Azerbaijan in the process of normalization of relations with Armenia,” Efkan Ala said, Haqqin.az reported.

According to him, the meetings within the framework of normalization of Turkey’s relations with Armenia continue.

“Meetings of the special representatives took place. We are waiting for the improvement of relations. I hope that the other side also has the similar objective. Results will be achieved that will be useful not only for the two countries, but also for all the countries in the region,” Ala said.

And speaking about Turkey-Azerbaijan relations, the AKP vice-chairman said that “everyone is advised to learn lessons from that brotherhood.”

Natalia Rotenberg, the wife of Tigran Arzakantsyan, the head of the “Power of Fatherland” party, is going to run for Yerevan Council of Elders from the “Power of Fatherland” party, she said in an interview with Verelk.

“The party has decided that I will head the pre-election list, and this is a big responsibility for me. Now I am studying what Yerevan needs, what needs to be done in the capital, I am studying the program of the current city authorities,” Rotenberg said.