YEREVAN. – There is no need to expect something special from 2018 at the Karabakh conflict zone, and regarding its settlement.
Armenia’s Caucasus Institute Director, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan, stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Tuesday.
In his conviction, there are no foundations for achieving progress in the negotiation process to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
But, as per Iskandaryan, there should not be expectations of a new war either, albeit shooting will continue along the Line of Contact.
Even though the analyst did not rule out the possibility of new tensions in Karabakh, he did not see a likelihood of the resumption of large-scale military actions.
Iskandaryan added that there is no need to expect a final settlement of Karabakh conflict in the current year, since there is no respective condition.
Along with that, the analyst stressed that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have long ended their attempts to resolve this conflict, and now they deal solely with its direct management by trying to reduce the level of tension along the Line of Contact and to create a climate of mutual trust between the conflicting parties.