ArmInfo. Due to clear understanding of the impossibility of Karabakh settlement, no attempts are made during recent several years. Such an opinion was shared with ArmInfo by Alexander Iskandaryan, the Director of Institute for the Caucasus.
During his recent interview to the first Public Channel Serzh Sargsyan, the President of Armenia, voiced the provisions of the Karabakh conflct settlement which are similar to those sounded by actual authorities. Meanwhile, there is no sign of readiness for such compromises in Baku even at the level of second-rank potiticians, not speaking about the authorities.
Conflicts like this is being solved during several decades of years, sometimes even a shift of generation is required, meanwhile the Karabakh conflict is young. And it is impossible to solve it just expressing a readiness so sign any document. From the times of Levon Ter-Petrosyan Karabakh stopped being an intellectual issue and it is naive to expect the signing of any new Agreement between Armenians and Azerbaijanians. Every clever and smart idea is voiced, all the documents are on the table," he mentioned.
The political expert sees the heart of the problem in the absence of balance not provided by Madrid Principles. As a result every step of Azerbaijani side faces Armenian rejection, and vice versa.Within this, in expert's opinion, everything will remain at its places in visible future. At that, according to the expert estimates, the Azerbaijani policy becomes more and more strict, taking into consideration the oil prices and the developments in Azerbaijani domestic policy. Iskandaryan is confident that Baku passed to the April escalation from the level of sniper war , increasing permanently the cannonades from light weapons up to mortars, diversions and shooting down Armenian helicopter. At that, the geography of Azerbaijani military actions expanded simultaneously.
" Such processes directly contradict the peaceful settlement process. And the co-chairs, in essence, are delaing with restricting the violation and not with the problem in essence. As the best, in upcoming months the sides will succed only in the observers placing issue," Iskandaryan summarized.