In
2015 the situation over Nagorno-Karabakh will not be better than in 2014, Tom
de Waal, a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie
Endowment, told ArmInfo on Saturday.
According to the expert, this year's tension was a
logical result of the parties' last years' efforts to militarize their contact
line.
The Azerbaijani authorities, according to de Waal,
deem it necessary to remind the world from time to time that some of their
territories are occupied, and they do it by breaking the cease-fire regime and
causing certain instability. In their turn, the Armenians see it proper to
demonstrate their military strength to the enemy.
All this, according to the expert, is bad for the
cease-fire regime and the peace talks, especially as this is happening amid the
geopolitical crisis in Ukraine.
According to de Wall, the Minsk Group is on its last
legs, so, the best the parties can hope for in near future is periodic meetings
of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents – something that has little to do
with real peace talks.