ArmInfo.The aggravation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border is due to the development of the situation on the Middle East track, in Syria in particular. The same point of view on March 9 at a press conference in Yerevan on the question of ArmInfo was expressed by the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ruben Safrastyan.
According to him, this is a continuation of the Turkish diplomatic game. Safrastyan believes that in this way Turkey demonstrates to Russia that at any time, by means of Azerbaijan, it will be able to destabilize the situation in the South Caucasus.
At the same time, the orientalist believes that the situation that exists today in the zone of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict is beneficial to everyone.
At the same time, Safrastyan considers it an accident that the outbreak of tension is precisely on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border, and not in Artsakh, as it was before. "The 102nd Russian military base is located on the territory of Armenia. Therefore, the choice of the place of sabotage attacks of the latter and shootings is not random. In this way, Ankara sends messages to Moscow. Although everyone understands that they have no chance of a positive outcome when the military operations are unleashed. This is a diplomatic game Ankara: demonstrate more to snatch at least something, "the orientalist concluded.
Note that the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border has been turbulent over the past week. As a result of skirmishes from the Armenian side, a contract soldier was wounded, two border guards were killed by the enemy. In addition, the Armenian Armed Forces stopped an attempt to infiltrate the territory of the country by a sabotage group of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. And yesterday, the border villages of Armenia were shelled.