The fact that the authorities of Armenia and Artsakh fail to draw any conclusions from the changes in the Karabakh situation causes concern and alarm, Manvel Sargsyan, Director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies, said during debates on May 19.
"It is noteworthy that after the 'four-day war' Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan personally admitted the fact that the political situation around the conflict settlement has changed. More than a month has passed, but no conclusions have been drawn from these changes so far. This is probably the main conclusion one can made when analyzing the situation," he said.
Sargsyan thinks that Aliyev received from foreign forces the right to unleash a local war or the war was imposed on it fraudulently. He thinks that Baku has driven itself into a corner by means of the long-term policy of pressure on Artsakh, which is called "military diplomacy". After Armenia switched to the deterrence doctrine, the given policy also reached a deadlock.
"As a result, Aliyev had to launch the April aggression, which caused a situation that depended on neither of the conflicting parties. Today Serzh Sargsyan and Seyran Ohanyan do not stop telling the society that the lost territories are of almost no significance. The fact that they fail to answer the primitive question why our army was stopped halfway demonstrates that the given decision was taken with due regard for a third party's interests," the analyst said.