ArmInfo.The common deficit of cooperation between Moscow and Washington within Yerevan and Baku being not ready for the compromise strengthen the dynamic status quo around Karabakh, Russian expert Sergey Markedonov stated his opinion to ArmInfo.
There's nothing new in here. But the main danger is that new dynamic pulses put under the strike this this status quo as well and the consequences of its cancellation are hard to forecast. Meanwhile, the diplomatic rounds are shifted with military power tests, and within this the basic parameters of the power balance such as the Infrastructure of NKR, negotiations under OSCE Minsk Group, special positions of Turkey and Iran, and the higher level of involvement of Russia - are kept unchanged. "Within all this, hypothetic status rendering to Turkey as a Minsk Group co chair will only increase the non-efficiency of the main co-chairs work, because will bring additional contradictions and disputes," the expert summarized.
To recall, on Feb 25 night the Azeri armed forces attempted to mount attacks on the southeastern (Martuni) and eastern (Akna) sections of the line of contact with the Artsakh troops by using special equipment and devices for demining. Due to the video surveillance devices, the forward detachments of the Defense Army of Artsakh fixed the advancement of the Azeri troops in both directions and made the adversary retreat.