Areshev: OSCE MG Co-Chairs’ statement on Karabakh elections represents certain progress
The May 3 parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh aroused great interest and representatives of different countries observed these elections, Andrey Areshev, expert at the Center for Central Asian and Caucasus Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told a news conference on Thursday.
The expert highlighted that the Artsakh elections were followed by nervous statements by Baku. He also stressed the statements of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the United States which said that the results of the elections will not influence the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process and at the same time recognized the Nagorno-Karabakh people’s role in deciding their future.
The expert said that these were protocol statements, but they represented a certain progress in the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh.