The leadership of Armenia is stable in its position about the “extreme” levels of rapprochement between Moscow and Baku in the wake of the 44-day Artsakh war. According to them, this does not help the Russian partners to adopt a neutral stance, EADaily wrote.
“Pashinyan is afraid of joint Russian-Azerbaijani pressure on Yerevan, which will require him to make new concessions in the negotiations. How objective such concerns of the Armenian prime minister are is another question,” the news website wrote. In the context of the Armenian leadership’s intention to negotiate directly with Baku, the message of the Azerbaijani leader comes down to the following: peace in return for endless concessions.
Pashinyan’s message to Aliyev is clear: not to escalate the situation in the region before COP29, although such an attitude by the Azerbaijani authorities seems unlikely at such a sensitive negotiation stage. One way or another, Yerevan and Baku still have to survive September—which has been a series of relatively large border escalations in the post-war period—and then to continue the search for a mutually acceptable peace, the achievement of which is continually delayed.
