Forecast: In Baku there is a political decision to resolve the issue  of Artsakh by military means

ArmInfo.In Baku there is a political decision to resolve the issue of Artsakh by military means. Executive Director of International Center for Human Development  (ICHD) Tevan Poghosyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.

"Accordingly, at the earliest opportunity, at the first convenient  opportunity for itself, Azerbaijan will try to resolve the issue in a  similar way. Thus, the Armenian parties to the conflict should use  relative calm at the border to prepare properly to dispel all  revanchist demands of Baku; continue to negotiate , of course,  necessary in any case. It is in our interests, " he stressed.

However, tensions on the Line of Contact, according to Poghosyan's  estimates, are already growing. And Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan sees this perfectly well, as evidenced by his attempts to  solve the problem through operational channels with Azerbaijan. In  this light, the analyst does not consider it possible to expect from  the outcome of the Brussels meeting of the Armenian Prime Minister  with Ilham Aliyev something more than what was announced, in  principle.

Following a brief meeting on Monday in Brussels with Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once  again expressed his conviction to journalists that Artsakh should be  returned to the negotiating table. He also stressed the impossibility  of resolving any conflict in conditions of concentrating on the  interests of only one of its parties. In this light, Pashinyan  described the refusal of Azerbaijan to negotiate with Artsakh as the  most important obstacle to the settlement of the Nagorno- Karabakh  conflict. Later, Prime Minister Spokesman Vladimir Karapetyan told  reporters that, among other things, Pashinyan and Aliyev also  expressed concern about the increase in tension on the Line of  Contact.

Poghosyan causes an increase in cases of violation of the ceasefire  regime, which have become traditional initiatives of Baku, usually  arranging provocations on the eve of meetings between the leaders of  Armenia and Azerbaijan. At the same time, he expressed conviction  that in Baku they would try to shift the responsibility for  provocations at the border to Yerevan. Based on the Brussels  interview of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to  Armenian journalists, the behavior of the Azerbaijani delegation at  the Eastern Partnership Summit, analyst believes that Baku's  behavioral line has not undergone any significant changes.