Any attempt to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a military way will affect the international situation, the former Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Vladimir Kazimirov stated during a Yerevan-Moscow space bridge.

The development of Russian-Turkish relations is not an obstacle to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. Rather, to an extent, it even contributes to a peaceful settlement. He pointed out that, unlike Baku, Ankara is against a military settlement of the conflict.

Kazimirov said that the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and Armenia-Turkey normalization are impossible to link. According to him, Turkey should first of all normalize its relations with Armenia and “make moral and political capital” before the international community to use it for settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

As regards the Armenian-Azerbaijani-Russian presidential meeting scheduled for next week, Kazimirov does not rule out some progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. “I would not say that the meeting will result in any breakthrough,” Kazimirov said.

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