A Sargsyan-Medvedev-Aliyev meeting in St. Petersburg is one of the regular meetings and any breakthrough should not be expected in the Karabakh peace process, Manvel Sargsyan, an expert of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies, told NEWS.am.

“As the OSCE Minsk Group does not display activities in organizing meetings between the parties, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev continually threatens to walk out of the talks, Moscow decided to take the initiative and use this opportunity (in St Petersburg, on the sidelines of the International Economic Forum) to bring them together”, the expert noted.

He stressed Moscow and Ankara are now competing to consolidate their positions on the Karbakh peace process.