The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concerns over the recent escalation of tensions on the Azerbaijani-Armenian contact line. The ministry urged the sides to stabilize the situation, warning that further escalation could have repercussions for the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and realization of the deals signed in Vienna on November 19, 2013.
Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Director of Regional Programs of the Institute for Caspian Cooperation, says that Russia is taking all the necessary measures to prevent detonation of the situation. He notes that any military acts would cause casualties, although such high-scale conflict is unlikely at the moment, both sides of the conflict are interested in peace. The expert adds that the Armed Forces are balanced.
Andrey Petrov, an analyst of the MSU Center for Information and Analysis, says that one of the problems for Nagorno-Karabakh on the global scale is lack of international sources of true information. Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of the OSCE chairman, had made no official declarations ten days before the provocations started. The expert believes that it is time for other international mediators besides Russia to speak out against tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia and urge them to take a peaceful path. Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan plan another meeting the following month to continue the constructive process started in November 2013.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concerns over the recent escalation of tensions on the Azerbaijani-Armenian contact line. The ministry urged the sides to stabilize the situation, warning that further escalation could have repercussions for the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and realization of the deals signed in Vienna on November 19, 2013.Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Director of Regional Programs of the Institute for Caspian Cooperation, says that Russia is taking all the necessary measures to prevent detonation of the situation. He notes that any military acts would cause casualties, although such high-scale conflict is unlikely at the moment, both sides of the conflict are interested in peace. The expert adds that the Armed Forces are balanced.Andrey Petrov, an analyst of the MSU Center for Information and Analysis, says that one of the problems for Nagorno-Karabakh on the global scale is lack of international sources of true information. Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of the OSCE chairman, had made no official declarations ten days before the provocations started. The expert believes that it is time for other international mediators besides Russia to speak out against tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia and urge them to take a peaceful path. Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan plan another meeting the following month to continue the constructive process started in November 2013
