Zardusht Alizade: "A party avoiding bilateral negotiations does not think about the interests of its people"

According to iNTENFAX.RU, Pashinyan expressed his readiness to meet with Aliyev to hold talks on Karabakh and regional issues.
Continuing his speech, the Prime Minister said that Yerevan is ready to resume the work of the trilateral commission of the Prime Ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on opening regional communications.
This statement could revolutionize the history of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict. One of the main problems in resolving this conflict, and perhaps the first, is that since the 1990s, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been unable to conduct bilateral negotiations without mediators. The mediators (co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group) use the conflict in their own interests, and not to resolve it.
We turned to political scientist Zardusht Alizade with a request to comment on Nicole Pashkina's statement. “I have been calling for bilateral negotiations for 30 years. It is the sovereign right of the two countries to start direct negotiations. However, Russia will not stand still and try to interfere with the settlement of the conflict, ”he said. the parties must overcome these obstacles and achieve peace through bilateral negotiations for the happiness of their peoples. A party that avoids bilateral negotiations does not care about the interests of its people. You are on a commission created at the level of deputy prime ministers, where you will be aware of the issues, but we want to negotiate directly, without intermediaries. if he wants, it depends on Russia, be prepared for bilateral negotiations by reducing tensions. We know that Russia is not fulfilling its obligations under the trilateral declaration and is violating paragraph 4 of the declaration. In this case, we must not trust Russia, we must try to start bilateral negotiations as soon as possible. "

Akif Nasirli