The former head of Soviet intelligence: Heydar Aliyev was ready to make territorial concessions
The former Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, and previously head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov made an interesting confession in an interview with Baltnews agency. Referring to the process of settlement in Karabakh, he admitted that Heydar Aliyev was willing to make territorial concessions to Armenia.
"The late Heydar Aliyev and Robert Kocharian, as well as the leadership of Nagorny Karabakh, perceived everything very correct. In April 2000, we met in Key West, Florida. We found the formula: for the money of the International Monetary Fund could be provided a corridor from Azerbaijan to the south, and from Armenia to Stepanakert. But Heydar Aliyev ... He first did not share anything, and when he told his closest colleagues, they became angered: “How can we give pieces of our territories," he said, without specifying details.
Then Baku suddenly supported the formula of "common state" for Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh supposed by the co-chairs. Immediately thereafter, his resignation, the state adviser for foreign issues Vafa Guluzudae, and a little later the Foreign Minister Tofik Zulfuqarov and the assistant of the president Eldar Namazov resigned.
Nobody explained officially the reason for the resignations, but in private conversations, they admitted that Aliyev wa ready to grant independence to Karabakh in exchange for the corridor to Nakhchivan. It was the so-called American peace plan, which failed after the terrorist act in the Armenian parliament, where eight deputies , parliament speaker and the prime minister were shot.--02D-
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