The UN should pay special attention to regional conflicts, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the ceremony of presenting credentials from the new ambassadors of 20 countries in the Kremlin.

As an associate professor of the Department of International Security of the Faculty of World Politics of the Moscow State University named in the conversation with the correspondent of "Vestnik Kavkaza" M.V. Lomonosov Alexey Fenenko, the words of the president concern the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, within which the UN could go three ways as an intermediary.

"The scenario number one is connected with the fact that all of us over the past 25 years could be sure that the OSCE Minsk Group has not brought any result as an intermediary, which means that we can try to create a new negotiating format, now under the aegis of the UN," - he suggested.

"The second option is to transfer the Minsk Group from the OSCE format to the UN format in order to give it a corresponding, more substantial status.

And, finally, the third option, the least significant, is the sending of the UN monitoring mission to the conflict zone, which could end speculation on the topic, who constantly opens fire in the conflict zone and breaks the negotiations. For now, I see three such options to intensify the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the help of the UN. Now, alas, the agreements reached last year in Vienna and St. Petersburg are stalled, and it is required to optimize the negotiation process in one way or another, "Alexei Fenenko pointed out.

As for Vladimir Putin's words about the need to comply with the decisions of the UN Security Council, then, as applied to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, this means fulfilling four Security Council resolutions, which Armenia still refuses to carry out. According to the assistant professor of the Department of International Security of the Faculty of World Politics of the Moscow State University, for this it is necessary to maximally dilute the issues of de-occupation of Azerbaijani territories and negotiations on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

"You can influence Armenia here by compelling it to comply and continue negotiations on the basis of, again, the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements, with de-occupation of the first two and then five more occupied regions of Azerbaijan." We often hear from the Armenian side, unofficially, but from influential circles that without discussion about the status of Karabakh there will be no deoccupation - but these two problems must be dissolved: first de-occupation, then discussion about the status of Karabakh.As a result, today the task is to return to Vienna and St. Petersburg m agreements, not allow them to break, "- concluded Alexei Fenenko.