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En route to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Erdogan responded to a series of questions by journalists.
According to Anadolu, the state news agency, Erdogan responded to a question by a journalist about an earlier statement by the Armenian prime minister that he will not allow a transit corridor between Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan, its exclave to the west of Armenia.
“Opening or not opening such a transit corridor is a political issue. One wonders - on the one hand he [Armenia’s prime minister] makes such a statement. On the other hand he wants to meet with me. If he wants to meet with Erdogan, then he must take certain steps. We’re not opposed to diplomacy. In fact, he has communicated through the Georgian prime minister his desire to meet me,” said Erdogan, adding that for that to happen, Armenia must demonstrate a positive approach.
“If the Georgian prime minister conveys such a request and undertakes steps towards a new process, I will demonstrate my sincerity and begin negotiations. When there is diplomacy, of course, one must give and take. I hope that in this matter, the positive approaches outweigh the negative. Thus, I am hopeful that the problem of transit corridors between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be overcome,” Erdogan reportedly said.
Commenting on this latest development, a former Armenian foreign ministry official observed: “Turkey is up to its games again. It is always Armenia that must take ‘some positive steps’. Erdogan says this even as Turkey continues to keep closed an international border between countries at peace. One wonders about the ‘sincerity’ of his readiness to negotiate. At the same time, it is unclear why Armenia would make such an overture through Georgia, and not a country with whom Turkey has a different, more conditional, level of relationship. Why not France or the US? The messenger country’s role in something like this is extremely important. Erdogan clearly did not think Georgia’s request and role in this mattered sufficiently to maintain confidentiality. All this means Armenia is heading towards a difficult negotiation.”
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By Mark Dovich
A five-year government plan, approved on Thursday by Armenia’s legislature, officially outlines the Armenian government’s priorities on Karabakh through 2026. It is the first official document approved by the Armenian government to do so since the country’s disastrous defeat to Azerbaijan in last year’s war in and around the region.
In a speech last Wednesday presenting the plan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stressed that “Armenia’s external security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, a just solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, and the creation of a favorable regional and international atmosphere around Armenia continue to be a priority.”
“Our position is that the full-fledged restoration of the peace negotiation process in the format of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship is an essential factor in ensuring regional stability and security,” he continued.
The Minsk Group was formed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the 1990s and is meant to encourage peaceful resolution of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. France, Russia, and the United States chair the group.
The action plan, which lays out the Armenian government’s priorities through 2026, calls for a “just solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” and repeatedly stresses Yerevan’s desire to resume peace negotiations with Baku through Minsk Group mediation.
The Armenian government “sees a final settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict under the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs by clarifying the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh on the basis of known principles and elements,” the plan reads in part.
The phrase “known principles and elements” stems from deliberately ambiguous language used in the past by the Minsk Group mediators, according to Tigran Grigoryan, a Yerevan-based political analyst. He has criticized the use of such unclear language in the action plan.
Since 2009, France, Russia, and the United States have repeatedly stressed the need to resolve the Karabakh conflict according to three basic principles. The Madrid Principles, as they have come to be known, are “non-use of force, territorial integrity, and the equal rights and self-determination of peoples.”
Additionally, Grigoryan has said it is unusual for one party in a conflict to adopt the language used by mediators of the same conflict. “It is unclear why the Armenian authorities decided to use the wording and vocabulary of the Minsk Group co-chairs in the government’s program,” he wrote.
Grigoryan has also noted that the government action plan’s sections on Karabakh deviate from campaign pledges made by Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party during this summer’s snap parliamentary elections.
For instance, he has pointed out that the action plan makes only one fleeting reference to Karabakh’s final status. By contrast, the Civil Contract pre-election platform repeatedly mentions the issue and calls for the “final clarification of the status of Artsakh [Karabakh]” and for the “full realization of the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination” under the principle of remedial secession.
Grigoryan has also underlined that the government plan fails to mention the fate of territories within the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) that came under Azerbaijani control as a result of last year’s war. But during the election campaign, Civil Contract pledged that “one of Armenia's priorities in the negotiation process will be the de-occupation of the territories on which the people of Artsakh have self-determined.” The NKAO was a nominally autonomous region in Soviet Azerbaijan with an ethnic Armenian majority.
Lawmakers in the National Assembly, as Armenia’s single-chamber parliament is officially known, voted 70-0 on Thursday to approve the plan. But only representatives from the ruling Civil Contract party took part in the vote, with opposition lawmakers harshly criticizing the plan and refusing to vote on it.
During a speech to the National Assembly two days prior, Pashinyan said that “the government’s program is designed to maximize compliance with the negotiation atmosphere, the restoration of the [negotiation] environment, and the protection of the interests of Armenia and Artsakh.”
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Armenia's new government, formed after the June election, has 15 ministerial positions, but only one woman minister - Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan. Despite seeming changes for women’s rights and despite women’s active involvement in civil society, their presence in top government positions remains scarce, even at a local level.
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Arin Karapet is a member of the Swedish parliament. Elected in 2018, he is the second Armenian to ever serve in the Riksdag, as Sweden’s legislature is known. In a conversation with CivilNet, Karapet discusses the future prospects of Armenia-Sweden relations, how he sees democratization in Armenia, and how Armenian causes are discussed in Swedish politics.
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