Paris sends signals that it is ready to resume contacts within OSCE Minsk Group on Karabakh settlement but there are no guarantees that France and the U.S. will not block this platform again, Denis Gonchar, director of the fourth department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

"The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship format was paralyzed after the U.S. and French co-chairs 'froze' interaction with their Russian counterpart on February 24 this year without prior notice or consultation. This blatant violation of a basic principle of the Troika's work, the consensus rule, happened for the first time in the thirty-year history of the OSCE Minsk Group. Some time later indirect signals about readiness to resume contacts through the co-chairmen began to come from Paris as if nothing had happened," said the Russian diplomat.

According to him, the Russian side has not yet received a clear explanation of the reasons for blocking the platform.

"There are no guarantees that such destructive actions won't be repeated in the future under some far-fetched pretext," added Gonchar.

He also recalled that a mediator has a chance to succeed if all parties to a dispute are interested in his services. But there is no such consensus, Gonchar said.

"The processes of normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia should not depend on the whims of Western players. We have a vast field for joint work with Baku and Yerevan on the implementation of trilateral agreements of our leaders," he believes.