Armenia should officially agree to the statement made by the Presidents of the co-chair countries in Canada on June 26, the political scientist Stepan Grigoryan told reporters on July 8. His proposal is one of the five points that the Armenian authorities are supposed to honor during the next five years. Armenia’s second step must be to demand that, before a peace treaty has been signed, all the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should put their signatures to the Madrid Principles.

According to Grigoryan, the Armenian authorities’ third step must be applying to the OSCE Minsk Group, including Turkey, so that the OSCE Minsk Group member-states assume the responsibility for unilateral recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence if Azerbaijan refuses to honor its commitments.    

Armenia’s fourth step is to ask the OSCE Minsk Group to put the issues of establishing mutual confidence on the negotiating table. Without confidence between the conflicting parties any progress in the negotiations is impossible.

The fifth step is explaining the essence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to the international community by means of diplomatic channels, as well as at the intergovernmental and inter-parliamentary level, as the Azeri propaganda caused the international community to have a false idea of the conflict.

All the five steps must be simultaneously taken for the best results to be produced, Grigoryan said.