YEREVAN. - Azerbaijani leadership pursue the policy of selective contacts with the Armenian side for quite a time, Deputy Director of Caucasus Institute Sergey Minasyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In this context Minasyan highlighted the fact that Azerbaijan did not refuse the Eastern Partnership program, despite Armenia’s involvement in it. It follows that Azerbaijan is selective in demonstrating its positions on the international level.

“And that’s understandable: they do not have other means of expressing their discontent safe,” he added.

Asked whether this discontent is targeted at internal or external audiences, Minasyan replied, both directions.

“To inner audience they convey that they are resolute in their positions on Karabakh conflict, to external audience they suggest that Azerbaijani side did not come to terms with the fact of losing Karabakh. 

Azerbaijan had expressed a special opinion about the Program of Cooperation among the CIS Member States in Combating Illegal Migration for 2012-2014, approved by Council of CIS Foreign Ministers in Dushanbe on September 2.  

Baku stated that Azerbaijan will not comply with any provisions of the program related to Armenia, until “liberation of all occupied territories and complete elimination of the consequences of the aggression”.