The private meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev has finished in Munich, Germany. Reliable sources report that the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers are now holding a meeting with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen.

World mass media have provided coverage of the meeting in the context of the Azeri leader’s strongly worded statements.

Specifically, the Euronews TV channel entitled its report as “Last chance talks over Karabakh”

The source reports that “the Moscow mediated truce deal signed last year between Azerbaijan and Armenia is on the verge of unravelling if talks today do not produce a result.”

Referring to the Azeri leader, Euronews reports that “President Ilham Aliyev has already warned his country would be prepared to take the region back by force.”

Yesterday, Sergey Markedonov, expert at the Russian State Humanitarian University, commented on the Azeri leader’s statement. He said that hostilities in the conflict zone may be resumed only if “someone loses his rational faculty.” According to him, resuming hostilities in the conflict zone will be a unhappy enterprise the Azerbaijani leader is unlikely to resort to – in contrast to his Georgian counterpart, Aliyev is a rational politician. “One thing is talking about war, but quite another thing is getting corpses,” Markedonov said. He added that Aliyev will continue playing with this argument. The expert pointed out a balanced situation round Nagorno-Karabakh – neither the West nor Russia is supporting either side. Marekedonov said that Aliyev’s rhetoric is most likely a mere diplomatic move.