The EU projects new agreements with Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was once again spoken in the 7th annual meeting of foreign ministers of the Eastern Partnership program in Brussels, where Armenian also attended. Political analyst Styopa Safaryan is confident that this new agreement will also evade the Karabakh conflict like the previous EU agreement. “If we look at the EU’s attitude to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, we will see that it is absolutely limited to listing the famous principles of general declaration and was understood by the EU that it cannot adopt a pro-Azerbaijani or pro-Armenian posture. Therefore, it cannot violate the balances and has preferred just to evade the problem. The best that they tried to do was to contribute to easing the hostility and sentiments in the public thru the formats of comprehensive cooperation or different projects, which was just closed by Azerbaijan a few years ago,” – said Mr. Safaryan.
According to Mr. Safaryan, Armenia is a extremely important country for the EU to lose as a result of complaining about the Armenian authorities, “We look at the four-day war in April perhaps so far by the prism of Armenia-Azerbaijan and Turkey-Russia, but we forget what lessons these major players, such as the EU, learn. In this context, the EU sees that the situation created in the Caucasus is a result of the violation of quite dangerous balance of forces, which started many years ago and under this violated balance, there are wars that may jeopardize the interests of the EU. Perhaps, in this sense, the EU more and more feels working with both parties to the conflict. During the meeting, Latvian Foreign Minister calls on to sign the Association Agreements with Armenia and Azerbaijan. Certainly, it has not and will never be negotiated in Azerbaijan for the dictatorship regime in this country is not interested in democratic freedoms, on the other hand, it has always tried to sell this circumstance to the Russian Federation as a sign of more devotion. An imperative of diversification of security policy and foreign policy has emerged before Yerevan, and the EU see it and there is a two-sided interest to expand the relations. Both Armenia and the EU are interested and the latter is interested in filling in the vacuum caused by the intrusion of the EaEU draft.
Arpine SIMONYAN
