Fikret Sadikhov: Azerbaijan hopes that Putin will resolve the Karabakh conflict

Professor of the Western University in Baku, political scientist
Fikret Sadikhov, commented on the post-election statement by Putin
regarding the priority of the CIS countries to Russia exclusively for
"Vestnik Kavkaza." The expert said that he sees nothing extraordinary
or new in this statement.

"I think that, naturally, there will follow an attempt to realize his idea
of the Eurasian Union, about which he wrote and which he has presented
already many times. Vladimir Putin will seek to unite certain
republics, for sure, on a parity basis, since the association
would likely be possible on other grounds. In relation to those who
have already signed the agreement, the format of cooperation will be
expanded, while new cooperation will be sought with the rest. This is
his first priority," the Azerbaijani political scientist said.

Another issue, according to Fikret Sadikhov, is the position of the
republics themselves and the extent to which they are willing to sign
such an agreement.

Fikret Sadikhov also expressed his hopes that Putin would pay more
attention to conflict situations in the former Soviet Union,
particularly in relation to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. He hopes for concrete tangible results and not just mere
meetings, like it used to be in the times of Medvedev.