YEREVAN. – No revolution has taken place; the same document is on the table.
Giro Manoyan, head of the Political Affairs Bureau and the Armenian Cause Office of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party of Armenia, stated the above-said to reporters on Saturday. He stated this while commenting on Friday’s formal meeting in Vienna, between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
He stressed that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ statement preceding this meeting clearly indicates that everything is the same in terms of the Karabakh peace process.
“They [the Azerbaijani party] only said that there was no change in format [of the negotiations],” Manoyan noted. “There is no any more significant comment by them, as our prime minister has commented.”
To the remark that the earlier arrangements that were reached in Saint Petersburg and in Vienna were now being removed from the agenda, the ARF official responded as follows: “The presence of those arrangements would not only contribute to maintaining the ceasefire today…there is no guarantee that Azerbaijan will truly continue to maintain its current stand. And if it violates the ceasefire, the absence of those mechanisms will not enable to find out who has violated the ceasefire.”
Giro Manoyan said even the statements were in the name of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, and that it is hard to say anything clear at this time.
“Of course, it’s rare that the [OSCE Minsk Group] co-chairs and [the Armenian and Azerbaijani] foreign ministers together make a statement,” he added. “[But] the statement makers were not present at the actual meeting [between the Armenian PM and the Azerbaijani president].”
