Styopa Safaryan, the director of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs.
Armenia did not draw lessons from the April war over Nagorno-Karabakh, as the hostilities provoked by Azerbaijan did not have a political implication, according to Styopa Safaryan, the director of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs.
Commenting on the repeated calls for seeking Nagorno-Karabakh’s recognition based on the Kosovo precedent, the politician ruled out that possibility. “Whenever [international precedents] are not accepted, negotiations yield no results. So we need to consider a political divorce, a unilateral recognition,” he said, expressing regret that the Armenian authorities do not demonstrate willingness to move towards the country’s recognition.