Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan has no need for West Russian analyst comments on Baku-Yerevan talks

Speaking to Armenian media, Russian political analyst Fyodor Lukyanov said that Azerbaijan doesn't need the West when it comes to negotiating with Armenia.

"Some recent successes are the basis on which Ilham Aliyev most likely wants to continue the national idea of Azerbaijan. Most likely, this will include new goals. Azerbaijan will continue its current policy, and it will act more confidently in the international arena, as it has done most recently with the West. It expelled French diplomats from the country and threatened to leave the Council of Europe altogether in response to the termination of the powers of the Azerbaijani delegation in PACE," he said, per Caliber.Az.

"I think there is a desire not to be a regional country but a regional power. It remains to be seen how successful this will be, but the steps taken and the political statements make this clear. However, one of the main goals of this stage is a peace agreement with Armenia, which is perhaps one of the most problematic issues. There are several scenarios for the development of events between Armenia and Azerbaijan, depending on the actions of the conflicting countries themselves, as well as the West and other actors.

The main trend of the recent period in which events are taking place is that the Armenian authorities continue to make statements to the West that Armenia is a peace-loving country, these statements are partially evaluated and some statements are made in response in support of Armenia. But Azerbaijan, for its part, has begun to reject the West, does not need the West in any negotiations and demands progress in the negotiating agenda.

As we can see, the West is not ready for more serious measures, and this is obvious to everyone. Armenia's foreign policy calculations are somewhat strange because it was already clear that even if Armenia changed its foreign policy, the West was not going to provide the kind of support Armenia really needs. And this made the situation even more complicated because Armenian-Russian relations are quite complicated. There is a dialogue with Iran, but there are also disagreements related to relations with the West. So, on the whole, this is a new difficult stage both for the countries and for the region as a whole, where everyone is in an ever-changing role," Lukyanov said.