The Armenian side back-pedaled in the Karabakh peace process. The clear evidence thereof is the Madrid Documents, assuming self-government as an interim status to Karabakh and indicating the necessity to return the “occupied territories” surrounding Karabakh, Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, ARFD member Armen Rustamyan told NEWS.am.

According to him, today two active processes are underway in the Karabakh peace process. “Today’s international activity over Nagorno-Karabakh was never observed and this accounts for Yerevan’s initiative on the normalization of relations with Ankara. Rustamyan stressed the conflicting parties entered a new stage, namely the stage of peace enforcement. “The sides are under the OSCE Minsk Group’s pressure in signing any document,” he emphasized.