Turkey and Azerbaijan are trying to advance the idea of a corridor, but the regional and non-regional players have other notions that are different from the notions of Ankara and Baku. This is what political analyst Argishti Kiviryan told reporters today and recalled that the statement signed on November 9, 2020 concerns the road with a special status that will be under the control of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, not what Baku says or wants.
Even if Armenia is imposed to implement this provision of the statement, according to Kiviryan, it won’t mean that it is within the logic of the desires of Ankara and Baku.
“For instance, Iran doesn’t accept this. The same thing that disturbed Turkey and Azerbaijan from seizing Stepanakert will also disturb them now. Proceeding from the counterbalances and the established rules of the game, Baku still isn’t trying to solve the problem militarily since this will mean declaring a war against Moscow,” Kiviryan emphasized, adding that Armenia is located in a region in which the enemy will always exert pressure and that the only way is to create a combat-ready army.
According to Kiviryan, the November 9 statement also stated the need for exchange of captives, and Moscow seeks to meet this objective step-by-step. “The mistake of the Armenian authorities was that they shouldn’t have implemented the other provisions so long as Baku hadn’t returned all the captives. What Armenia has now is a result of the absence of skillful diplomacy,” he concluded.