Why didn't the Aliyev-Pashinyan meeting take place?
The past day has not clarified the question of why the meeting between Aliyev and Pashinyan in London on July18 broke down. The announcement of the upcoming meeting was made a week ago from Armenian sources, and Baku was silent about the upcoming meeting.
Apparently, the initiative came from the British side. According to international practice, the organizers of such a meeting first notify the parties and only after receiving their consent begin to prepare a meeting. At the same time, everything is agreed upon: the topic and the issues proposed for discussion, the composition of the participants and their status, as well as the time and place.
The issue of the final document is also being agreed upon (do the parties wish to adopt a statement following the meeting or not, and do the parties want to announce the meeting itself in advance?)
It is very strange that the meeting broke down after solving all these protocol procedures. Something happened at the very last moment. Baku announced Yerevan's refusal of the meeting, but the Armenian side denied this, saying that it was Azerbaijan that refused. Neither side has clarified this situation, so one can only guess.
Armenia's situation is not such as to dictate conditions. Pashinyan and his entourage have stated many times that they are ready to sign a peace agreement within a month, but Baku opposes this. Azerbaijan, in turn, continues to repeat that without changing the Armenian constitution and opening the Zangezur corridor, the agreement will not be signed.
Yerevan has certainly proposed to include these issues on the agenda of the meeting. Discussing these topics in the presence of the British side would hardly have satisfied the Azerbaijani side, because they had to explain why a peace agreement should not be signed.
It is possible that some other issues were included in the agenda, which the Armenian side considered unacceptable. Therefore, the dispute over the agenda is the most real reason for the disruption of the meeting. This fact will not have a positive impact on the course of the peace talks and only indicates that the parties are taking an unapproachable position on some issues.
Want to say
-
In Ukraine, a brutal, bloody war caused by Russian aggression continues, claiming lives, destroying homes, demolishing infrastructure, and inflicting incalculable harm on the environment and surrounding natural ecosystems. Ukraine, more than anyone else in this world, strives for peace, as we bear the daily brutality of this Russian-Ukrainian war. We are at the forefront of the struggle for the right to life, freedom, and justice. Ukraine seeks a just peace that will lay a solid foundation for a stable future for Europe and the World, and the only way of achieving this is to implement President Volodymyr Zelensky's Peace Formula (the Ukrainian Peace Formula).
-
On the eve of a large-scale flood approaching Baku, a disturbing incident occurred in the village of Buzovna, where a Lada Priora car fell into the ground, literally collapsing the road beneath it. The driver miraculously remained unharmed but vowed to seek justice, promising to file an official complaint with the prosecutor’s office against Azersu OJSC, the state-owned water supply and sewerage company, often associated with deeply rooted corruption.
-
In a bit of historic irony, powerful oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili has managed to inspire rare unity across Georgia’s cacophonous political scene twice in his life. His money and influence forged the broad-based consolidation of opposition forces that brought him to power in 2012, and now, 12 years and three electoral cycles later, a similar pattern of opposition convergence could send him packing.
-
Russian authorities and pro-Kremlin influencers have been spreading false information about alleged Reporters Without Borders (RSF) research into Nazi tendencies within the Ukrainian military, which was featured in a viral video falsely attributed to the BBC. RSF exposes the inner workings of a disinformation campaign designed to justify President Vladimir Putin's war narrative.
Leave a review