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Artsakh Republic Foreign Minister Masis Mayilian thinks that international calls to solve the NK conflict were insufficient and were openly ignored by the authorities in Baku. “New international political and diplomatic measures are needed to deter Azerbaijan, including steps to recognize the independence of Artsakh, which will ensure the irreversibility of the peace process and regional security,” Mayilian has stated in an interview with News.am agency.

Speaking of the need to return Artsakh to the negotiation process, the FM has noted that the position of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan completely coincides with the approaches of the authorities of Artsakh. “The need to restore the full-fledged trilateral negotiation format has repeatedly been mentioned by the President of Artsakh, Bako Sahakyan, and other officials both in public statements and at the negotiations with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen for the past two decades,” Mayilian has said, pointing also to the the final document of the OSCE Budapest Summit of 1994 and the trilateral and termless ceasefire agreement of May 12, 1994, as examples of recognizing the NKR as a conflicting party by official Baku and the international community.

“To overcome the current situation and to ensure progress in the negotiation process, we consider it necessary to return to the trilateral format of the settlement, which has already proved its effectiveness. This approach is also important in view of sharing the responsibility for the implementation of the peace agreement. The authorities of Artsakh are ready to assume de jure their share of responsibility for maintaining regional stability,” the minister has stressed.

The reason for Azerbaijan's actual refusal to hold full-format negotiations with the participation of official representatives of Artsakh, the minister has explained by Azerbaijani authorities’ lack of will to resolve the conflict through peaceful negotiations
as wel as by Azerbaijani unwillingness to take practical steps to implement the agreements reached in Vienna (May 16, 2016), St. Petersburg (June 20, 2016), Geneva (October 16, 2017), and Krakow (January 18, 2018).”