Fikret Sadykhov and Alexander Iskanderyan believe Azerbaijan and Armenia won't exchange Karabakh

While OSCE Minsk Group co-chair James Warlick is paying an official visit to the region, several officials from the State of California decided to visit the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The US administration immediately issued a statement, saying that the federal authorities have nothing to do with this initiative. In spite of that the case immediately drew public attention, along with the recent visit to Karabakh by a German lawmaker that was also condemned by the Bundestag.

Vestnik Kavkaza discussed the situation surrounding the Karabkh conflict with Professor of the Western University Fikret Sadykhov and Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskanderyan.

Both experts told the news agency that the so-called Meghri plan is impossible to implement nowadays. According to the initiative suggested in the 90s, Nagorno-Karabakh was expected to be exchanged for the Meghri region.

"This is impossible. This idea was suggested by American political scholar Paul Goble and other experts, but it's unwise to exchange your territory for another territory of yours. It's not in Azerbaijan's interests," Sadykhov said.

"Nagorno-Karabkh is not a toy that a child can exchange for something. Karabakh is not an object, it's a participant in the political process. It may be unrecognized from the point of view of the law, but it is truly independent," Iskanderyan said.