Armenian authorities give up on Artsakh –political analyst (video)

The incumbent Armenian authorities in Prague have in fact given up on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), political analyst Sergey Melkonyan said to Novosti Armenia news agency's Minority Opinion YouTube channel.

YEREVAN, October 13. /ARKA/. The incumbent Armenian authorities in Prague have in fact given up on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), political analyst Sergey Melkonyan said to Novosti Armenia news agency's Minority Opinion YouTube channel.

"The main diplomatic success of Azerbaijan and Turkey is that Armenia has said that it actually gives up on the Artsakh issue. It means that Armenia is no longer a party to the conflict and accepts that the future of Artsakh is an internal issue of Azerbaijan," he said.

Melkonyan noted that de facto Armenian authorities have agreed because they accepted the main preconditions - signing a peace agreement with Azerbaijan, unblocking communications, normalizing relations with Turkey.

According to him, the Armenian authorities can't openly say that they gave up on Artsakh, so they hide under beautiful wording the fact that they have accepted Azerbaijan's proposal to recognize territorial integrity of each other.

"According to Armenian authorities, Azerbaijan became a member of the UN in its territorial integrity: Artsakh was part of it. In fact this means that Artsakh remains part of Azerbaijan, and Armenia will negotiate only the peace treaty with Baku," he said.

On October 6, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel held a meeting in Prague on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit.

In a statement adopted at the end of the meeting, Armenia and Azerbaijan confirmed their commitment to the UN Charter and the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991, through which both sides recognize each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty. They confirmed that this will serve as basis for the work of the commissions on delimitation and that the next meeting of these commissions will take place in Brussels by the end of October.

Armenia expressed its agreement to encourage the EU civilian mission along the border with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan agreed to cooperate with the mentioned mission to the extent it will be concerned. The mission will start its work in October, for a maximum period of two months. 

The purpose of the mission will be to build confidence and, through its reports, support the border commissions. -0