Another usual exchange of views took place at the meeting between Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, Lead Analyst of the Russian Agency for Political and Economic Communications, political expert Mikhail Neyzhmakov told.
Neyzhmakov made the remark commenting on the fact of the president’s appeal to NATO to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
As the expert noted, during the meeting Sarkissian reiterated the role of Turkey in the ongoing events around Karabakh, to which Stoltenberg reacted with ‘NATO is not involved in this conflict’,’ Armenia and Azerbaijan should resume negotiations’ statements.
“The Armenian president is making serious efforts to consolidate the thesis about Turkey's role in the conflict in the presentation of the Western audience,” he said. “Sarkissian mentions this message in all his interviews for the publications of the NATO member states. Although, most likely, the opinions of politicized citizens of the Alliance member countries will be more influenced by the statements of their own politicians.”
“At the same time, although Turkey has complicated relations with a number of NATO partners, for the Alliance leadership it’s yet beneficial to ignore the situation around Karabakh in its dialogue with Ankara. A bigger problem for the NATO leadership is now the settlement of Turkey-Greece relations. In this context, we can remind the shuttle diplomacy of Stoltenberg with his visit to Athens and Ankara in early October," pointed out the expert.
Neyzhmakov stressed that in relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan, the NATO leadership in the near future will most likely distance itself from the conflict, limiting itself to statements about the need to return to negotiations and preserve the role of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Armenian Armed Forces launched a large-scale military attack on positions of the Azerbaijani army on the front line, using large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery on Sept. 27.
Azerbaijan responded with a counter-offensive along the entire front. As a result of retaliation, Azerbaijani troops liberated a number of territories previously occupied by Armenia, as well as take important, strategic heights under control.
The fighting continued into October 2020, in the early days of which Armenia has launched missile attacks on Azerbaijani cities of Ganja, Mingachevir, Khizi as well as Absheron district.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, the Armenian Armed Forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on the withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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