YEREVAN. – Resolution of the Karabakh conflict is a long process. It requires reaching agreement on the issues that the parties can solve at the moment, political analyst told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Sergey Minasyan, deputy director of the Caucasus Institute, said such issues are reducing tension at the line of contact, or abandoning the warlike rhetoric.

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Jacques Faure (France) and James Warlick (USA), and Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office met with Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs on Friday.

The Co-Chairs stressed the commitment of their three countries to support the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on the non-use of force or the threat of force, territorial integrity, and equal rights and self-determination of peoples.

“If it is possible to persuade Azerbaijani side, which disagrees to make any effort because Baku believes that by doing so it will lose the last lever of influence on the negotiation process, then we can say that there may be some movement. If not, then the meeting was, unfortunately, a formal meeting, which, however, in this format allows preventing the so-called big war,” Minasyan said.