Azerbaijan will not change its position on Nagorno-Karabakh after the parliamentary elections. President Ilham Aliev will not be able to change his course after his numerous militant statements, Stepan Safaryan, Chairman of the Heritage parliamentary faction told journalists Oct 15. According to him, the Azeri leaders are hostages to their own policy. “Aliev will make a laughingstock of himself if his militant statements that he is ready to enter Yerevan are followed by talks about peace,” Safaryan said.

No radical changes will follow the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan. There will be no U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan during the elections, and the international community’s is not properly responding to the election rigging there. “The election rigging by the authorities will go unnoticed, and the authorities will form a Parliament to their taste,” Safaryan said.

Azerbaijan will not resume hostilities for the two reasons: they are not sure of success nor do they have the “legal grounds” for war from the international community.