Azerbaijan provokes international community: political scientist

YEREVAN, JULY 12, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijan itself acts so that others press on it by continuing shootings in the contact line. Such opinion expressed Deputy Director of “Caucasus” institute, political scientist Sergey Minasyan during the press conference on July 12. “The presence of those incidents is the last leverage that Azerbaijan can use in the negotiating process as in other way it can not have influence on Armenian side and international community” noticed the political scientist. By provoking Azerbaijan got only the opposite result. The border shootings made angry Hillary Clinton and international pressure on Azerbaijan increased demanding to keep the cease-fire regime.

“Due to Azerbaijani efforts “status quo” is more strengthening and if we get a mechanism under the pressure of Minsk Group it will be possible to decrease the amount of military incidents and we will have more long-term and stable image” mentioned the political scientist.

Reverberating to other regional issues the interlocutor mentioned that at present there are serious political developments in neighbor Georgia. In his opinion the appointment of Vano Merabishvili in the post of Prime Minister is related with Parliamentary elections which will take place in autumn. “These elections are important because President Saakashvili can not be elected for the third time” declared Minasyan.