The key to resolving the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) issue “lies in the Karvachar region”, according to Armenian military expert Karen Hovhannisyan.
“Why does the enemy [Azerbaijan] resort to provocations in the direction of Gegharkunik Province or along the Karvachar border?
“The position of the enemy in that area is incomparably more unfavorable (according to the GPS-indicated border). What does unfavorable mean? The enemy does not have the appropriate terrain conditions for deployment [of its troops],” Hovhannisyan wrote on Facebook.
“They cannot deploy heavy military equipment, artillery again due to unfavorable terrain conditions, and by advancing only 3-5 km it solves an important strategic task for itself – to resist a possible revenge in the future.
“Karvachar is more important for the enemy than the rest of the regions occupied by it, and if it loses (and will lose) Karvachar, the issue of Artsakh will be considered closed forever.
“If in other areas the enemy has an extensive line for the transfer of military equipment, then in the case of Karvachar it has only the Omar mountain pass, which closes in September. So, Karvachar is of great strategic importance for the enemy, it is in Karvachar that the key to the settlement of the Artsakh issue lies,” the expert said.