Reinventing peace tools

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, commenting on the issue, reminded that the mechanism of investigating the incidents should be one of the elements of the process of withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijan lands.

"Otherwise, this mechanism can serve for maintaining the status quo based on the fact of occupation," said Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.

Another nonsense aspect of Nalbandian’s talks in France is the legitimacy - Armenia, which declines to show constructive position on the conflict resolution and refuses to sit at the negations table, now mulls such a “peaceful initiative” with France in absence of Azerbaijan.

Expert Ilgar Velizade, who shared the view, said the fact is that first, such discussions are beyond the scope of bilateral ArmenianFrench format, and, secondly, even if Baku agrees to its deployment, such equipment must be installed outside the area of access to it by any party to the conflict.

“Accordingly, this equipment must be supervised and managed by independent experts with the relevant mandate, confirmed by the parties to the conflict and certified by the relevant structures of the OSCE - an organization that is engaged in the negotiation process,” he said.

The expert believes that Yerevan’s attempts to discuss the mechanism of investigating the incidents and deployment of peacekeepers into the conflict zone at this stage is an absolute profanity

“Yerevan does not have any right for such talks. And such issues are not solved unilaterally. This is an obvious attempt of the Armenian side to "put the cart before the horse" and mull issues that are out of priority before the meeting of presidents in Vienna,” he said, adding that Yerevan’s attempts are ridiculous.