High expectations from the meeting in Kazan, during which Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian leaders discussed the Karabakh conflict, and “its subsequent failure” was conditioned by the fact that “Russian and Armenian diplomats overestimated the scale of political compromises which Baku could accept”  The Moscow News writes referring to its sources.

According to the newspaper, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had to correct the mistakes immediately.

He sent the Azerbaijani and Armenian colleagues, Aliyev and Sargsyan, a letter outlining his vision of the Karabakh settlement.

According to information at newspaper’s disposal, the Russian president found reasonable some arguments of the Azerbaijani side. 

“That is why Azerbaijan was the first to respond to this signal,” the newspaper writes.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov arrived in Moscow in mid-July and handed his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, a reply message from Aliyev. However, he declined to comment on its contents.

“According to some information, Azerbaijan agreed to the provisions which were recorded in Medvedev’s letter. However, nothing is reported about Sargsyan’s response,” Russian political expert Aleksey Vlasov told The Moscow News.

Therefore, Vlasov considers the Russian president plans first to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart.  According to him, the next trilateral meeting will take place only after Moscow will ensure that all parties are willing to sign the document  they had to sign in Kazan.

If the talks with Aliyev are held successfully, they will be followed by a meeting with Armenian leader Sargsyan. The next would be a trilateral meeting in late August or early September and signing of an updated and modified “road map”.

On August 9 Dmitry Medvedev will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Sochi to discuss the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.