Tuesday, April 25 2023 19:22

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan, having established a checkpoint on a new road connecting Armenia with  Artsakh, continues to put pressure on the Armenian side. Alexander Iskandaryan, director of the Caucasus Institute, announced this during the discussions on this issue.  

According to him, Baku uses this practice of pressure by various methods available to it,  starting from discourse, declaring that "there is no such entity as  Karabakh", and consequently, "there is no such problem".  The second  way of pressure is to carry out various provocations on the borders  of Armenia and Nagorno- Karabakh, various types of armed  provocations. Baku also continues to exert diplomatic pressure on  Armenia in order to force it to agree with the wordings proposed by  it.

The blockade of Nagorno Karabakh, as the expert emphasized, is aimed  at ensuring control over goods and people entering or leaving Nagorno  Karabakh. In fact, according to Iskandaryan, the checkpoint was de  facto established in December last year. <However, then it was not  presented as so, the people standing there were acting under some  exotic naming. In fact, they were standing there and are standing  there under the instructions of the government of Azerbaijan to  control the situation, they themselves decide who to let in and who  not," the political scientist said:

He stressed that today the checkpoint installation has been  formalized, and people with exotic naming will acquire a real one-  border guards. Moreover, this checkpoint has moved closer to the  territory of Armenia.  "I don't know what will happen to the people  who are standing near Shushi, whether they will be removed or  continue to stand there, but in any case, this is a continuation of  the process of pressure in order to achieve new benefits for  themselves," the expert said.