MOSCOW. – OSCE is the only structure dealing with the security of Europe, no matter Azerbaijan likes it or not, head of Russian Centre for Military Forecast Anatoly Tsyganok told Armenian News-NEWS.am commenting on the statement by the second secretary of the Security Problems Office of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elchin Huseynli that OSCE MG creates opportunities to artificially lengthen the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

OSCE understands that the situation may be settled only through peace, which goes against the bellicose rhetoric of Baku.

“Minsk group holds that position. Neither Europe nor U.S. wants war in the South Caucasus. Meantime, Azerbaijani rhetoric that Baku will not hesitate to use force, finds no support in the West. Thus, OSCE acts correctly,” the expert said and added that Baku will hardly manage to go beyond the format set by OSCE MG.

Besides, the conflict settlement depends not only on Azerbaijan but also Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh as well as Russia, Iran and Turkey, Tsyganok concluded.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Huseynli stated that OSCE creates opportunities in lengthening Karabakh conflict settlement. According to Huseynli, OSCE MG is almost 20 years old but co-chairs do not feel the responsibility put on them. Such passivity of the OSCE MG on Karabakh conflict may serve for the authority of the structure in the Caucasus to be under attack, Huseynli concluded.