Difficult 30 years for this long-suffering land. But the war cannot last forever. There are a lot of assessments and judgments regarding what happened. Some of them will settle down, some won’t. Nikol Pashinyan, I think, entered the history of Armenia not in the most plausible way. At the same time, his Prague statements last year are clearly interpreted as Yerevan’s recognition of Baku’s sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh, de jure turning any actions on its territory into an intra-Azerbaijani conflict.
Now a lot depends on official Baku. First of all, in matters of reintegration of ethical Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, in matters of ensuring security on its territory.
There is a slow but sure movement towards restoring peaceful life. Russia will not stand aside. And, of course, not only at the level of the peacekeeping contingent. The tools of parliamentary diplomacy work brilliantly in such difficult situations. We will not let all these problems out of our control and our sphere of attention; we will discuss them with colleagues from the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan, the National Assembly of Armenia, and at international parliamentary platforms.
The main vector today should be aimed at achieving sustainable peace and ending the bloodshed. Any conflicts must be resolved at the negotiating table, and not in the arena of military operations. We will do everything possible for this.
