Forecast: Karabakh conflict will remain frozen as long as modern-day  Russia exists

ArmInfo. The Karabakh conflict will  remain frozen as long as Russia exists in its current form.  Azerbaijani political scientist Zardusht Alizadeh expressed a similar  opinion to ArmInfo.

"However, there is another option: the Armenian and Azerbaijani  peoples can somehow come to their senses and get out of the state of  nationalism and hatred imposed on them. Today our peoples are deeply  infected with mutual hatred, ignorance, revenge and unrealized  dreams. That is why the option of the resolution of the conflict  between the two nations in a peaceful way, to mutual benefit, seems  so fantastic today, "he said.

According to Alizadeh, the Karabakh conflict initiated by the Russian  special services and the leadership, is in this sense on a par with  Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, now Crimea and Donetsk with  Lugansk.  And local foolish nationalists were involved in heating up  these conflicts, becoming brainless, mute instruments in the hands of  Russia.

"In the case of Karabakh, it was Russia, indirectly, by the hands of  Armenian and Azerbaijani politicians and field commanders, that  controlled the course of hostilities. Moscow achieved the victory of  Armenia and the loss of Azerbaijan and froze the conflict. Of course,  neither we nor the Armenians really won, instead Russia won, using  the frozen conflict as a great tool to keep the entire region under  its own control, "he said.

According to the political scientist, today, after more than a  quarter century since the cessation of hostilities, there are very  few people in Armenia and Azerbaijan who understand the essence and  real causes of the Karabakh conflict. These are people who see its  destructive impact on the conflicting countries. People trying to  explain to two peoples its destructiveness, explain the need for  reconciliation and seeking a way out.

"In the end, the principles of the right of peoples to  self-determination and the territorial integrity of states are  absolutely compatible. The Aland Islands, Northern Ireland, and even  Tatarstan can be brought as an example. But Russia still stands on  our path to peace, still supporting Armenia and Azerbaijan's  political forces, which have committed themselves not to resolve the  conflict, the same Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan once  traveled to Aland and was fascinated by the purely European peace and  prosperity there, but today he claims that Artsakh is Armenia. By  doing this he demonstrates tacid agreement with the course of Moscow,  agrees not to resolve the conflict. Our president does the same, "he  said.

According to the Azerbaijani political scientist, the entire state  policy of Azerbaijan and Armenia is all about the Karabakh conflict.  And the leadership of the two countries before and now is in power  due to refusal to resolve the conflict and obstructing all those who  try to resolve it. That is why no real peace process around Karabakh  has been carried out for all these years. There has been only an  imitation of this process. Meanwhile, taking into account the  considerable potential of the world, the conflict, according to  Alizadeh's forecasts, can be quickly resolved taking into account the  interests of both the Armenian and Azerbaijani people.