No big expectations from Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting: political technologist

No breakthrough should be expected from Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting, political technologist Vigen Hakobyan told Aysor.am, referring to the upcoming meeting between the two leaders on March 29 in Vienna.

He said the two sides would hardly sign any document during the meeting.

“Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan states that he does not consider the current phase as negotiations in general and says it is just a meeting held to discuss the format. I think we should clarify what we should expect from the meeting,” he said, adding that the outcome may be either positive or negative.

“The current package on the table of negotiations, the so-called Madrid Principles, will not bring any good to the Armenian side,” the interlocutor said.

Hakobyan stressed that these principles do not fix the common interest of the two Armenian states and it will be of fantasy genre to think that they may ensure positive outcome.

The political technologist said that if the Armenian side claims on Artsakh participation in the negotiation while the Azerbaijani leadership excludes such opportunity, the situation appears in the deadlock.

“Realistically, the negotiations, not having launched yet will not succeed. It is very logical. In such case it is senseless to speak about negotiations. I may predict that in some phase Azerbaijan may speak about involvement of Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh, especially in case when Nikol Pashinyan stresses always about Armenians of Artsakh in his speeches,” he said, adding that it is a deadlock.

“The April 2016 war showed that this document causes war as the conflicting parties are not close to each other in the field of compromise,” he said.