Friday’s meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Vienna contains both positive and negative—or at least bewildering—records.

Arman Babajanyan, a member of the opposition “Bright Armenia” Faction at the National Assembly, wrote the aforesaid in a Facebook post.

In particular, he noted that, first and foremost, the positive thing is the fact of the holding of these actual talks under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.

As per Babajanyan, the fact that the co-chairs have described this meeting as “constructive” and that the parties agreed to continue these talks also should be considered a positive result of the Vienna meeting.

As for the “bewilderments” with respect to this meeting and afterwards, the Armenian opposition MP noted that there was no word on returning Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) to the negotiating table.

Also, as per Babajanyan, Prime Minister Pashinyan said nothing about the interpretation of the three Madrid principles and six elements that are included in the negotiation process. Thus, as maintained by the MP, we can record that either the Armenian agenda was not discussed at the Vienna meeting, or it was discussed in such a context that no record was made about it.

As per Arman Babajanyan, the only tangible record of this meeting is the arrangement on taking humanitarian steps.

According to the Armenian lawmaker, reaching agreements on maintaining the ceasefire should be considered a pivotal achievement of the Vienna meeting.

As maintained by the MP, this period is an opportunity for Armenia to get stronger and to bring its economy and public life to a qualitatively new level. But, according to Arman Babajanyan, we do not observe any respective visible changes yet.