Azerbaijan could be communicating with Russia about Armenia talks, says Speaker

Armenian Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan on Tuesday didn’t rule out that Azerbaijan could be communicating the Armenia negotiations content with Russia.

Speaking to reporters in parliament, Speaker Simonyan mentioned that the allied relationship between Russia and Azerbaijan has been playing a rather big role in all recent developments.

The fact that to this day Azerbaijan hasn’t responded to Armenia’s recent peace treaty proposals could be linked with the Azerbaijan-Russia tensions, he said. 

“No development in the region takes place without either positive or negative mediation and at least attempts to interfere by big players. And I think that the allied relations between Azerbaijan and Russia have played a rather big role in all the actions of the recent times. For instance, Azerbaijan’s readiness to negotiate in specific places and refusal to negotiate in specific places and so on,” he said.

Asked whether Azerbaijan is communicating the negotiations package with Russia, Simonyan said he cannot confirm or rule out such a hypothesis. 

“I think the Azerbaijani side understands that Armenia’s independence, Armenia’s sovereignty, the future of Armenia’s independence and Azerbaijan’s sovereignty, its future, all these issues are highly interconnected. And this is in our hands. And today we have a historic chance to resolve this issue once and for all and pass to our generations a peaceful co-existence,” the Speaker said.