YEREVAN. – Results of the Armenian and Russian presidents’ August 10 meeting in Moscow show that the disagreements between the two countries have become public.

Armenian Center of Political and International Studies analyst Ruben Mehrabyan stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Wednesday.

“During the talk with [President of Armenia Serzh] Sargsyan, [President of Russia Vladimir] Putin said Russia is ready to become a guarantor of security—with some OSCE Minsk Group countries—in the [Nagorno-]Karabakh conflict zone,” stressed Mehrabyan. “It’s not hard to imagine that Putin could not utter the word ‘[Minsk Group] co-chairs.’ The phrase, ‘some countries’ of the OSCE Minsk Group, has no other meaning than Turkey.”

The analyst noted that Russia has not denied the Turkish president’s and FM’s statements that the Armenian party to the conflict needs to cede lands.

“The Armenian side publicly said ‘no’ to Russia,” added Ruben Mehrabyan. “When meeting of the Defense Ministers’ Council of the CSTO member countries was being held yesterday [i.e. Tuesday] in [Armenia’s capital city of] Yerevan, Serzh Sargsyan was in Brazil, watching the Olympic Games.”

The analyst expressed a conviction that this also means a lot of things.