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-