Both sides have concentrated the latest types of weapons that can hold at gunpoint both populated areas and infrastructure. Such tensions are difficult to control, the former American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick told The Voice of America amid the tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border

These weapons are very difficult to take back from the parties, he noted. It is advisable not to reach the point where one of the parties is impatient or thinks it can gain an advantage in the war. There will be no winners in such wars, there will be only human losses. The new conflict will be more destructive. He added that during his co-chairmanship, they saw that there is public assistance in finding ways to settle, and now societies have taken more extremist positions, which hinders the efforts of the president or prime minister, aimed at a peaceful settlement of the conflict.

As for the fact that Aliyev dismissed FM Elmar Mammadyarov and appointed to this post a person with no diplomatic experience, Warlick noted that a small number of people were connected to the settlement of the conflict, mainly the president, the PM, and their FMs. They understood the issue. The foreign ministers of the two countries fully understood the issues and did not put forward proposals that were initially doomed. Any change complicates the process, since they do not own the details of the whole process, they are not familiar with it from the inside.