ICRC head: Stuff working near the Contact Line had to take shelter  frequently due to the intensity of the fighting

ArmInfo. The fighting in the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone is so intense that even staff working close to the Contact Line  had to take shelter frequently.

President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)  Peter Maurer stated this in an interview with CNN.

"What we are witnessing reflects other contexts in the world: an  internationalization of conflicts which go far beyond only the  parties which were traditionally involved," the ICRC's Maurer said in  an interview. "This leads to a dangerous assumption in many  conflicts. On the surface it appears they have slowed but underneath,  the situation remains extremely fragile. It needs obviously very  little for the situation to escalate, and these dynamics are  difficult to stop", said the head of the ICRC.

Maurer stated that "(The pandemic) has inhibited person-to-person  contact and it has certainly inhibited the informality of diplomacy.  ... The virtual diplomacy is still a work in progress -- it has not  been yet the place or the format in which we can have trustful and  confidential negotiations".

"All of this makes for a pretty grim picture mid-pandemic. A  simmering conflict, like the one in Nagorno-Karabakh, risks becoming  a conflagration that defies resolution and, like the virus, can  rapidly reverberate around the globe - with deadly consequences,>   CNN said in a statement.