ArmInfo.No progress is forecasted if not by 100%, by 99%, Alexander Iskandaryan, the Director of Caucasus Institute expressed such an opinion to the journalists in Yerevan.
"It is not worth expecting a final settlement of the Karabakh conflict in 2018. Such a forecast is completely devoid of preconditions, since even the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have long ago abandoned attempts to resolve it. The efforts of the intermediaries are reduced to attempts to reduce tension on the border and create an atmosphere of mutual trust, he noted.
The political expert estimates the talk of war as a bubble, excluding the possibility of a large-scale war in the foreseeable future. At the same time, Iskandaryan does not exclude the escalation on the Karabakh contact line, finding it difficult to predict its possible scales.
According to his estimates, the development of the situation largely depends on the efforts of the superpowers, Yerevan, Stepanakert, and the internal situation in Azerbaijan. Iskandaryan does not forecast an aggravation of the situation around Karabakh in connection with the presidential elections in Azerbaijan for the simple reason that in Azerbaijan the authorities are simply not elected.