‘IT CAN HARDLY BE SAID OF THE SUCCESSFUL END FOR WAR’

Aysor.am
Tuesday, January 26

Director of the CIS Institute Konstantin Zatulin in his comments on
the trilateral Armenia-Azerbaijan-Russia meeting between Presidents
Serge Sarkisian of Armenia, Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, and Dmitry
Medvedev of Russia, said in an interview with Russian Service of Voice
of America that Azerbaijan will lose in economy and investments in
case of the military solution to the Karabakh conflict.

"Given the completely different views by Armenia and Azerbaijan on
the final results of the running negotiations, I can’t say if there
is another way for solving the conflict but the forced methods,"
said Konstantin Zatulin.

"If Azerbaijan’s government decides to enter the war to return those
lost territories, or as it calls them — ‘occupied territories’ —
then it can hardly be said of the successful end for this. At least,
it will lead to great economical problems and flow-out of investments
for which Azerbaijan is wishing for."

In any case, the sides would rather negotiate than go in war, according
to Konstantin Zatulin. He pointed that negotiations provide trust
and hope for the peace settlement to the conflict. Superpowers –
Russia, US, and the EU – can force Armenia and Azerbaijan to accept
‘their scenario’, says Konstantin Zatulin adding that all this doesn’t
mean that parties will agree, and that other regional superpowers —
Iran and Turkey — won’t declare their own ‘special interests’.