Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan get along quite well, as well as their entourage. They speak Armenian with each other and then switch to Azerbaijani. This sensational statement was made by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting with students at the Moscow State University on Thursday. Answering a question from an Armenian student on the efforts to resolve the Garabagh conflict, Medvedev said the following: “I often meet the president of Azerbaijan and the president of Armenia. And it is surprising that the entourage of both presidents, Aliyev and Sarkisyan, get along quite well with each other and easily switch from Azerbaijani to Armenian and from Armenian to Azeri. It happens in my presence.
But, I hope, that Serzh Azatovich and Ilham Heydaroglu will not be offended if I say that they get on well. When we sit together at the table, they communicate very well.
But there are real difficulties: There is history, there is different understanding of different legal structures and there is different set of interests. Russia will certainly help in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. You probably know, I have done a lot to get these presidents to meet and discuss this topic. This work will continue. But I can say one simple thing: the resolution of this conflict is very complicated, but I am absolutely sure, that this problem can be resolved depending on the good will of the two peoples and the two presidents. If they listen to each other, hear each other and slightly move toward each other, to find compromises, everything will be all right. I am absolutely sure of it. This is just one of the few frozen conflicts in the former Soviet Union, and even in Europe as a whole, which, in my opinion, can be solved,” said Medvedev (Turan).
