YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS. Political analyst Garik Keryan says the Nagorno Karabakh (NKR) conflict is acquiring features of the Arabic-Israeli conflict: long process with periodic escalations, delays and lack of prospects for solution.

“Anyhow Aliyev has not won. Azerbaijanis were even writing in social networks that this is a victory of coffins. In these conditions, Azerbaijan will try to achieve victories in some areas to increase internal political legitimacy. External factors may also escalate the situation. If in fact Turkey was behind the April war, Azerbaijan and Turkey might as well have a new plan”, Keryan said.

 "Today, it seems as if Russia, France, the US are trying to watch how the conflict would end or what will be the result of these battles,” he added.

“There may be a secret anticipation of the Russian failure, in case of which the settlement issue will be passed to the West. In conclusion, we can say that a new escalation may be objectively connected with external factors”, Garik Keryan said.