Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan: International community tries to bring Azerbaijan to negotiation field

YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, ARMENPRESS: The invitation of Ilham Alyev to Sochi by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev means that Azerbaijan is the party, which calls forth issues in the negotiation process, political specialist Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said today at a meeting with journalists, referring to yesterday's meeting of Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Sochi. "Today international community, including Russia, tries to bring Azerbaijan to negotiations field," Hrant Meliq-Shahnazaryan stressed.

The political specialist is of the opinion that it is early to give assessments about the results of Sochi meeting, and they can be summed up only after the CSTO non-official summit, which will be summoned in near future in Astana. According to him, if within the frameworks of the summit after the meeting of Armenian and Russian Presidents there is a speech about organization of new trilateral meetings of negotiations over NK conflict settlement, we can say that Dmitry Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev have succeeded to come to an agreement in Sochi.

Military expert Artsrun Hovhannisyan expressed an opinion that the Russian President invited Aliyev to Sochi, as it was very Azerbaijan that failed the Kazan meeting. According to him, the Kazan meeting showed that Azerbaijan has unspecified issues and positions. "The Russian President has tired of organizing meetings, when there is no confidence that any development will be registered during those meetings," Mr. Hovhannisyan added.