Azerbaijan, Baku, 1 August / Trend / I.Alizade / Although official Baku expects Armenia's constructive position at the meeting to be held between Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister and his counterpart Edvard Nalbandyan in Moscow on 1 August on the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, independent political scientists consider this meeting to be fruitless. "The resolution of the conflict depends on whether Armenia will take the constructive position and observes international principles and standards," Khazar Ibrahim, press secretary of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said to Trend on 1 August.
Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, and Edvard Nalbandyan, his counterpart will meet in Moscow on 1 August to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, including Mathew Bryza (the United States), Yuri Merzlyakov ( Russia) and Bernard Fasier ( France) will participate in this meeting as well.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December 1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful, but fruitless negotiations.
According to the Foreign Ministry's official, Azerbaijan expects Armenian's constructive position not in words, but in steps, which Armenia must take to resolve the conflict.
However, the Azerbaijani political experts do not expect serious results from this meeting.
According to Asim Mollazade, a political scientist and member of the Azerbaijani Parliament's Standing Commission on international and inter-parliamentary relations, Armenia does not hold serious talks on the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh resolution: " Armenia is imitating talks in order to deceive the international community. Therefore, Moscow meeting will be fruitless."
Mollazade said that achievement of no progress in resolution of the conflict so far is because of the Armenia's position.
"These are ordinary talks and they will not lead to serious progress in the resolution of the conflict," said Vafa Guluzade, a former adviser to the Azerbaijani President on foreign policy issues
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