Expert: Baku will use the situation in Ukraine and the weakening position of Russia for settlement of the Karabakh conflict in the way it needs

The Azerbaijani activeness at the
line of contact with armed forces of Nagornyy Karabakh is conditioned by the
fact that the world community is busy with the Ukrainian problem, Director of
the Armenian Centre for National and International Studies , Manvel Sargsyan,
said at today's press-conference.

He also added that official Baku will use the
situation in Ukraine and the weakening position of Russia for settlement of the
Karabakh conflict in the way it needs. The expert thinks that to resist
Azerbaijan's such policy, the Armenian authorities have to display harsher
position and show the door to all external forces. "A sovereign state
should conduct more independent policy, and Armenia should make external forces
compete for spreading of their influence at its territory", - he
emphasized.

He also added that unlike
Armenia, Karabakh is in a more beneficial situation, as it does not let
external forces interfere its interior affairs. "Unlike many countries of
the region, the authorities of Karabakh adopt decisions only taking into
consideration interests of their country", - he concluded.