On Friday president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will have their first meeting in Saint Petersburg. The foreign affairs minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan informed during his first interview that there is a concrete package of suggestions to the Karabakh negotiations, which is registered with the OSCE and was presented to the parties during the OSCE conference in Madrid in 2007. However, American co-chairman Matthew Bryza says that there is no information at present concerning the recommendations developed to the parties at the end of last year in Madrid. “It was just a part of the negotiation process. Being the co-chairmen we have considered the recommendations of both parties during that year, discussed those recommendations and based on those recommendations we suggested compromises,” said Bryza. We don’t have to focus on the “mild” difference between these two announcements because if we follow Edward Nalbandyan’s logics, we will be sure that the positive results in favor of Armenia will be guaranteed after the meeting on Friday. Specifically, the foreign affairs minister of Armenia says that the result of the mentioned meeting can be considered positive for Armenia if the parties announce that they want to continue their negotiations after that meeting. Ultimately there will not be any announcements on stopping the process of negotiations on the part of Azerbaijan till the presidential election in Azerbaijan this fall. Accordingly, this can be considered another diplomatic victory.
