During a break at Munich Security Summit the Armenian president Armen Sarkissian met with the former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. The video shows them having a hearty talk. Then one can see how their conversation takes place quietly, far from curious ears, and the impression is that President Sarkissian is agreeing something with the former U.S. Vice President.

Joe Biden drew the attention of the Armenian public by a vide in which he tells in a short talk with an Armenian young man that Serzh Sargsyan had asked them not to recognize the genocide not to create obstacles to the Armenian-Turkish dialogue.

Biden, however, had a key role ahead of the four-day war in Artsakh in April 2016, whether intentionally or not. The point is that on 31 March 2016 both Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev were invited to the United States to attend the nuclear security summit. Ahead of this there was a conversation on a possible Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting which was going to focus on ceasefire mechanisms to alleviate border tension and frequent violations of the ceasefire. The United States was trying to activate talks in this direction ahead of the four-day war.

There was no Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting in Washington, Vice President Biden met with both separately. In this respect, an interesting statement was made by Serzh Sargsyan after the start of the four-day war in April when Azerbaijan attacked in the morning of April 2. Sargsyan stated that in the United States he had called on Joe Biden and Secretary Kerry to stop Baku from breaching the ceasefire.

“I had meetings with Vice President Biden and Secretary Kerry. I called on them to stop Azerbaijan from breaching the ceasefire but as you saw a few hours after the meeting the events took place which could have grown into something now,” Serzh Sargsyan stated in the evening of April 2.

In fact, he hinted that the United States had not managed to prevent the four-day war. Considering what Serzh Sargsyan announced in Berlin later, during his joint press conference in Berlin, and the question he asked to Lavrov in Yerevan on April 22, ostensibly on April 2 Serzh Sargsyan hinted openly that while in Washington he tried to call on the United States to prevent the maturing war but did not manage. It is also possible that Serzh Sargsyan hinted that the attack in the morning of April 2 was rapidly co-organized by Russia and Azerbaijan to be faster than the United States.

At least it was impressive when Serzh Sargsyan asked Lavrov on April 22 how come it happened, we have our opinion but we want to listen to yours.

Meanwhile, the four-day war in April was a fundamental, deep process, a transformation for the domestic life and regional setting, with an unmasking role both internally and externally. Moreover, in order to understand the current process at best it is necessary to understand the events that preceded and followed the April war in Karabakh.

Biden is one of the possible Democrat candidates ahead of the U.S. presidential election in 2020. He has the biggest chance to defeat Trump according to a poll held a few months ago.

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