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YEREVAN. – No change should be expected by the year’s end in the settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Caucasus Institute Deputy Director, political analyst Sergey Minasyan said during a press conference on Tuesday.   

In his view, the year’s greatest achievement in this process was the preservation of the peace talks, which could have been suspended due to the actions by Azerbaijan. “Despite the story in connection with Ramil Safarov [the Azerbaijani army officer who had killed with an axe Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest back in 2004 and who was released in Azerbaijan], the Armenian party was able to preserve the negotiation process,” the analyst noted.    

Reflecting on Turkey’s efforts to become an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair, Minasyan stressed that the current co-chairing countries do not intend and are not prepared to give up their places in the peace talks. 

In response to the query as to what could result in serious regional changes, the political scientist stated that the resumption of the railway operation via Abkhazia would become a signal for changes. “But to settle this matter, Russia and Georgia need to resolve the existing problems between one another,” Sergey Minasyan maintained.     

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