Who won the 44-Day War? During an online discussion organized by Futures Studio within the framework of the “Let’s Talk About the Future” series, Arif Yunusov, an Azerbaijani political emigrant in the Netherlands, historian, conflict specialist, and head of the Department of Peace Studies at the Institute for Peace and Democracy said in response to this question, “Officially, Azerbaijan… But right now, that was not a war, but the implementation of the Lavrov plan. The Lavrov plan came to replace the Madrid Principles, and the difference was that if the Madrid Principles included provisions of having international peacekeepers, the Lavrov plan included Russian peacekeepers. Despite the fact that the November 9th agreement mentioned that they would only be deployed for five years, we understand that they will be deployed for much longer. And when people ask me who won, I say Russia. The monopoly is in Russian’s hands. Where will Pashinyan and Aliyev go to negotiate in Moscow? Everything is decided by Russia and the main winner is definitely Russia. Today the Armenians were defeated by the Azeris, and tomorrow the Azeris will be defeated by the Armenians if Moscow needs it.”
Hripsime Jebejyan
