Alexander Tsinker, political scientist, commented to Alpha News on criticism of Armenia’s current authorities by Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, and on the prospects of signing a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the expert’s opinion, Baku is not showing a desire to conclude a peace agreement as soon as possible and keeps putting forward new conditions, including ones related to the Armenian Constitution and border delimitation.
“Azerbaijan, its leader, continues its policy. I have long felt that Azerbaijan is not very eager to sign a peace treaty. Each time it will set some conditions, both on the Constitution and on the borders, when the final delimitation issues come to be clarified. There is nothing surprising here,” Tsinker noted.
According to the expert, Baku’s policy may be influenced by its attitude toward Armenia’s historical heritage and its centuries-old statehood.
“Frankly, I was surprised that after the victory (and Azerbaijan, in general, did win the war, taking the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and forcing 100,000 Armenians to leave Nagorno-Karabakh, their homeland, where they lived), one would think the winner should have behaved somewhat differently. Because it won. Recalling the whole history of wars in Europe, winners behaved differently somehow. But here I sense some problem with Azerbaijan’s leader. And I get the feeling that they have one problem: the history of Armenia, its ancient history, an ancient state on the maps. It is talked about, it is written about. But Azerbaijan is unclear, what kind of entity it is, which began to be talked about only in the early 20th century. And this inferiority complex, it seems to me, somehow influences all the moves we see from Azerbaijan’s leadership,” Tsinker concluded.
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