Qaraca
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When Putin, with actual insight of negotiations, and someone who had his signatory in the 2020 ceasefire statement talks like this, and then you compare it to things people in this very thread claims.
Putin seems to be of the opinion that the balance of power was in Azerbaijan’s favor, that imbalance would only have gotten wider and that Armenia could not have kept the status quo and should have compromised.
“We responded: Listen, Azerbaijan is growing, its economy is advancing, it is an oil producing country, its population is already over 10 million, let’s compare the potential. This compromise should be reached while there is still an opportunity. For our part, we were confident that we would have the respective decisions taken by the UN Security Council, and would guarantee the security of this naturally emerging Lachin Corridor between Armenia and Karabakh, and guarantee the safety of Armenians who live there.
But we were told that they could not do that. So what will you do? We will fight, they said. Well, okay, it all came down to the armed clashes in 2020.”
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Valdai International Discussion Club meeting
Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 20th anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.en.kremlin.ru
I’m quoting this again after all those comments.
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