"Maybe in 15 or 20 years historians from both sides will be needed. However, the activities of the military police and special services in this issue are still more relevant: the Armenian population must be kept under strict administrative control, their contacts with Yerevan and the diaspora must be controlled, attempts by Armenian nationalists to exert ideological influence on the Armenian population in Azerbaijan must be prevented," expert emphasized. 

 

Furthermore, Kuznetsov expressed his opinion on Russian President, Vladimir Putin's statement on the determination of status of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

 

According to Oleg Kuznetsov, President Putin said that in order to put an end to the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan needs to make some legal decisions on the status of the region within the country.

 

"According to my understanding of Azerbaijani laws and the legislative system, the status of Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan will be determined in the form of the adoption of a constitutional law in accordance with the whole complex procedure. This process will take several years. In this sense, President Putin is absolutely right: now the de facto status of Nagorno-Karabakh is a territory under the control of Russian peacekeepers, and it must still be de-jure part of Azerbaijan. This is exactly what Putin meant when he said that the status of Nagorno- Karabakh has not yet been determined. However, this issue is a completely internal affair of Azerbaijan, it must and will be resolved  without any external influence and pressure, "he said.

 

Interviewed by Gulnar Salimova.