YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan is unable to come to terms with the idea that it has lost the war and Nagorno-Karabakh is an Armenian territory, and therefore it is making attempts to exacerbate the situation and to resolve the issue by force.

Karabakh War veteran Manvel Yeghiazaryan stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Saturday, as he reflected on Thursday’s fatal incident that occurred in Armenia’s Ararat Region, and on the border with Nakhichevan.  

In Yeghiazaryan’s words, one of the causes of this incident is delusion. As per the Karabakh War veteran, Azerbaijan seems to think that, by escalating the tension, it can force the Armenian population in the border regions to leave their homes; that is, to create suitable conditions for the prospects for resolving the issue by force.  

As reported earlier, two Armenian conscripts—Andranik Yeghoyan, 26, and Boris Gasparyan, 22—had died as a result of the aforementioned incident, when an Azerbaijani sniper had breached the ceasefire agreement and fired shots at the Ararat-Nakhichevan section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.