YEREVAN. – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the South Caucasus region did not contribute to the settling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, political scientist, expert at the Institute of CIS countries Mikhail Alexandrov told Armenian News-NEWS.am. According to him, Clinton’s visit would not contribute to the settlement of the conflict in any case as the West continues to hold a pro-Azerbaijani disposition.

“The USA did not condemn the recent Azerbaijani attacks on Armenian posts, they kept silent during the last couple years when Azerbaijan constantly violated the cease-fire regime and today they are operating with the same spirit. Clinton’s visit was dictated by the U.S. interests concerning Iran,” Alexandrov mentioned adding that the USA is trying to force Armenia into an anti-Iranian alliance without doing anything in return.

According to the expert, Washington is conducting the same policy towards Azerbaijan.

Talking about Russia’s disposition, Alexandrov announced that even though Moscow did not officially condemn the latest events on the Armenian – Azerbaijani borderline, but during every three-sided meeting Dmitry Medvedev forced Aliev to sign a document on not using arms.

Commenting on Hillary Clinton’s announcement that the sides of the Karabakh conflict will be proposed new approaches, the expert expressed skeptic opinions.

“The upcoming meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs in Paris and the negotiations on new approaches is just an attempt to calm down Azerbaijan’s aggression and to reduce the growing tension and prevent the escalation of the conflict. Nothing new will be said,” the expert said adding that no solution of the conflict should be expected from this meeting as the conflict is impossible to settle.