“Judgments about Armenia and Azerbaijan joining the ‘Abraham Accords’ are premature,” former Armenian Supreme Council member Vahram Atanesyan told Radar Armenia, referring to an interview given by Steve Witkoff, senior advisor to US President Donald Trump, to Breitbart News in May, where he expressed the opinion that both countries, Armenia and Azerbaijan, are ready to join the Abraham Accords. And now, according to Reuters, this agreement is becoming a prerequisite for Azerbaijan first to normalize relations with Armenia and only then join this agreement.
According to him, the goal of the ‘Abraham Accords’ is a comprehensive Arab-Israeli reconciliation, and Donald Trump presented this program during his first term in office.
“And the Arab world insists that the prerequisite for normalizing relations with Israel is the recognition of the state of Palestine. The US is Israel’s ally in this issue. Thus, the “Abraham Accords” project does not work in the Middle East.”
Speaking about whether Moscow is being pushed out of the field of peace negotiations and the US is becoming a mediating country, Atanesyan emphasizes that such assessments are extremely superficial.
“The US and Russia are currently in a difficult negotiation mode, and no one can say what agreements Washington and Moscow can reach on the issue of the South Caucasus, or what consequences their possible confrontation will have,” he said, adding that it would be a significant and principled achievement if it were possible to take the Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement out of that context and reach exclusively bilateral agreements on all issues.
