Though Hillary Clinton’s visit is a regional one, even it can happen for no reason, the former RA Foreign Minister and oppositional Armenian National Congress member Vahan Papazyan told NEWS.am. He added that the U.S. seems to have serious challenges in the region.

According to him, the Karabakh pace process will be discussed in Armenia and Azerbaijan. “Armenian and Azerbaijani statesmen have separately expressed content with the recent statement made by the co-chairing states in Canada. They have just to meet, discuss it and sign a joint agreement on adoption of certain principles. I think this is the reason for Clinton’s visit,” he said.

Vahan Papazyan also noted that no breakthrough should be expected in the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process. “Clinton will say that the U.S. is considering the issues separately and in different contexts, simultaneously realizing that one cannot be tackled without another,” ANC member stated.

The former RA Foreign Minister found it difficult to say whether any document on Nagorno-Karabakh will be signed and singled out an “absurd point”: “One of the conflicting parties – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is not involved in the peace process, therefore the mediators do not care about it at all,” he concluded.

As NEWS.am reported earlier, on June 26, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. President Barack Obama, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy issued the following statement on Karabakh from the G8 Summit:

“We welcome as a significant step the recognition by both sides that a lasting settlement must be based upon the Helsinki Principles and the elements that we proposed in connection with our statement at the L’Aquila Summit of the Eight on July 10, 2009, relating to: the return of the occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh guaranteeing security and self-governance, a corridor linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh; final status of Nagorno-Karabakh to be determined in the future by a legally-binding expression of will, the right of all internally-displaced persons and refugees to return, and international security guarantees, including a peacekeeping operation,” the statement reads.