YEREVAN. – The meetings of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are better than hostilities, and we always give positive assessments of such meetings, ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary group head Armen Rustamyan said.

However, one should not expect much, yet Azerbaijan has positioned itself as “not negotiating party” on the principled issues.

“How can one negotiate with a party that does not realize what concessions it should make? Azerbaijani side presents only unilateral concessions for the Armenian side. As long as Azerbaijan does not realize that they must respect the right of Karabakh people to self-determination, the process will be delayed,” Rustamyan told reporters.

Asked ether there is a fault of the OSCE Minsk Group, Rustamyan noted that it is impossible to equally blame the Armenian and Azerbaijani side in relation to the violence at the contact line, when you know exactly who is the initiator. He thinks it is time for international community to say who is who.

Commenting on the trilateral meetings with the presidents, the MP noted that the dynamics of meetings was forced by the Armenian side.

“In fact, it was a three-day war, the outcome of which forced Azerbaijan to sit down at the negotiating table, just as it happened in 1994. First of all our soldiers forced Aliyev to sit at negotiating table,” he added.