YEREVAN. – By and large, Azerbaijan had no military objective; the tools were military yet the objectives—political. 

Caucasus Institute Director, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan, said the abovementioned at a press conference on Thursday.

In his words, these objectives have been implemented to some extent.

As per Iskandaryan, what the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group mediators are doing now in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict negotiation process is providing “first aid.”

The analyst stressed that the negotiation process can resume, but noted that the 21st-century wars are won not only and not so much in the battlefield, but via television.

“Under the conditions of zero results of the escalation [of the conflict], Azerbaijan wanted to show that they likewise can fight,” Alexander Iskandaryan added. “Had it been a real war, it would have happened in an entirely different way.”