YEREVAN. – The Nagorno-Karabakh issue remains unresolved solely for Azerbaijan; there is no such matter for Armenia or Karabakh, stated Eduard Polatov, a Karabakh war veteran and chairman of the Union of Greeks of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, in an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

“Armenia and Karabakh have no issues with Azerbaijan; it is Azerbaijan that has an issue. If official Baku were prudent, it would just keep its statehood,” he noted, and added that Armenia should have recognized the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) a long ago.    

“It is a separate state, where there is more democracy than [here] at us, in Armenia, and in the entire South Caucasus,” the Karabakh war veteran maintained.  

To the question as to whether NKR’s recognition would result in a resumption of military operations, Polatov responded by saying that had Azerbaijan been even a slightest bit confident in its victory, it would have resorted to aggression a long time ago. 

“Azerbaijan will break its teeth in Karabakh because, by attacking Karabakh, it will be defeated in the war once again, and it will lose its statehood altogether,” Eduard Polatov concluded.