Expert: Yeraskh is another link in the chain of Baku`s pressure on  Yerevan

ArmInfo.By shelling Yeraskhavan, the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan is trying to create a tense situation, another hotbed of tension on the border with  Armenia, thereby trying to exert psychological pressure on our  population. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the expert  on Azerbaijan of the "Orbeli" analytical center Taron Hovhannisyan.

Since July 14, the Azerbaijani army has been shelling the village of  Yeraskh in the Ararat region of Armenia from the direction of  Nakhichevan from small arms and mortars. An Armenian soldier was ,  killed and the day before the head of the Yeraskh community was  wounded.

"The main goal of such aggression, no doubt, is Baku's desire to"  force Yerevan to peace, "of course, in the understanding in which  Ilham Aliyev sees it today. Such a desire is clearly manifested in  all actions of the Azerbaijani army. And Aliyev himself has  repeatedly voiced the threat of use of military force in case of  Armenia's unwillingness to agree to such a peace on his terms, " the  expert emphasized.

The expert considers the incessant shelling of Yeraskhavan as a  natural continuation of the Azerbaijani policy of pressure on Armenia  following the 44-day war. The current shelling, in his opinion, are  links of one chain consisting of Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan,  the Azerbaijani invasion of Gegharkunik and Syunik with the final  goal of forcing Yerevan to make unilateral concessions on the issue  of resolving the conflict around Artsakh and on the issue of  determining the status of Artsakh.  Within the framework of this  policy, Baku, according to Hovhannisyan's estimates, puts pressure on  both the psychological and socio-economic components of public life  in Armenia. Thus, Azerbaijan artificially heats up the internal  political situation and instability in Armenia. At the same time, the  goal is still the same - to get new concessions from Yerevan. The  expert is convinced that by maintaining constant tension in the  Armenian society, in the domestic political field, Azerbaijan is  trying to create an uncontested situation for the Armenian  leadership, in which unilateral concessions will remain the only way  to calm the situation inside the country.

"In any case, one should not exclude the scenario of the escalation  of the shelling of Yeraskhavan into a full-fledged military clash. In  such a situation, against the background of the recent war, we have  no right to neglect such a scenario. The very fact of Azerbaijan and  Turkey's neighborhood with Armenia does not give us the right to  exclude the scenario of a new war. Accordingly, all our actions must  proceed from this fact and this logic, "Hovhannisyan summed up.