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It is hard to believe that dictator Ilham Aliyev—the president of Azerbaijan—will keep any promise.

Jaromír Štětina, Czech military journalist, European Parliament Member (MEP), a member of the EU-Armenia and the EU-Azerbaijan parliamentary cooperation as well as a member of the delegation of the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly, told the aforementioned to Armenpress news agency of Armenia.

Štětina said even though he does not expect anything from the meetings between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, it was a positive step especially after the Azerbaijani attack in the northern part of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh), in early April.

“I think that the two sides can benefit from the meeting, I can say who will lose as a result of these negotiations: Russia will lose, and from the geopolitical view, of course, the escalation of the conflict is beneficial for it,” the Czech MEP stressed. “I think it’s time to speak about the NKR recognition, since it is a sovereign country over 25 years and has all features like any other state.

“The first is the military: the Nagorno Karabakh won in the 90s war, and it cannot be taken by force as Aliyev wants. Another thing is the state of economy, and it can be seen that the Nagorno Karabakh achieved progress in the economic sector. And eventually, it has a strong political system, it has a Parliament which usually cannot be found in various democratic states. That’s why I think that such kind of talks may lead to the point that eventually the world will start to be interested in the issue of the recognition of the Karabakh as a sovereign country.”

Jaromír Štětina added that the people of Artsakh need to always protect themselves, “since it is hard to believe that dictator Aliyev will keep any promise.”

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