YEREVAN. – There is no rational possibility for the start of a war in the Karabakh conflict zone.

Caucasus Institute Director, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan, stated the above-said at a press conference on Tuesday.

In his words, the quantitative and qualitative—in terms of the caliber of the weapons used—growth in the incidents of Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s boundaries with Azerbaijan is nothing new.

“The Azerbaijani side has a rational need that the shootings continue at the border,” Iskandaryan noted. “Very interesting developments are taking place in Azerbaijan. There is a sharp decline in gold reserves, devaluation is taking place. All these are indicators of a major economic crisis. This is a strategy so that not concessions or the attempts at achieving a mutual concession and settlement are discussed in the [Karabakh] negotiations, but just the avenues for reducing the shootings are discussed.”